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put out to pasture

verb

Etymology

From the practice of putting draft animals too old to work in a pasture.

Definitions

  1. To make someone retire, especially due to advancing age.

    • They've put John out to pasture and replaced him with someone who's got half his experience.
    • “But I’m just an old guy they put out to pasture — a simple painter,” added the 43rd president, who said he published the book to “elevate” the discourse around immigration.

  2. To discontinue something.

    • That version of the program has been put out to pasture.
    • The other problem was that the electrical locomotives vibrated, […] The electrical locomotives were put out to pasture, the carriages were adapted, and Electrical Multiple Unit traction was introduced from 1903.

  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see put out, to, pasture.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA