College
is where many people play at being young Turks,
experimenting with counterculture and lifestyles that
buck the norm.
El origen de esta
expresión se debe a The Young Turks, un grupo
nacionalista y reformista turco de comienzos del siglo
XX que revocó la suspensión del parlamento otomano y
marco el comienzo de la segunda era constitucional.
El término
apareció como un idiom alrededor de los años 1920 para
describir a un grupo de senadores americanos que
cuestionaron el sistema establecido.
The origin of the phrase is unclear. It might have
originated in the early 1700s in other forms, but
was not very popular. It gained popularity in the
mid 1900s, after a stage show called "Out On The
Town" was performed in 1944 and a film by the same
name came out in 1949.
https://www.theidioms.com/out-on-the-town/