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put out to pasture

idiom

1
:to bring animals to a large area of land to feed on the grass there
put the sheepout to pasture
2
:to force (someone) to leave a job because of old age
I'm not ready to beput out to pasture yet.
sometimes used of things
Iput my old computerout to pasture.

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In the winter, horses areput out to pasture while a few employees oil and repair stirrups and other equipment and make their own saddles.Sean Catangui,New York Times, 28 May 2023But that doesn’t mean the show’s world is beingput out to pasture.Herb Scribner,Washington Post, 9 May 2023And why is that a taboo, and why are weput out to pasture?Sarah Spellings,Vogue, 27 Sep. 2022And now, with Abbott as the critical darling of the Emmys and the torchbearer for network sitcoms typicallyput out to pasture in today's streaming age, more people than ever are paying attention.Jessica Radloff,Glamour, 9 Sep. 2022Baby boomers aren’t going to tolerate beingput out to pasture.Nancy Keates,WSJ, 9 Apr. 2022In the six-part series, based on Mike Herron’s novel of the same name, Oldman plays Jackson Lamb, an MI5 boss relegated to administrative purgatory in Slough House, where sub-par agents areput out to pasture.K.j. Yossman,Variety, 4 Feb. 2022Assuming central banks decree what market forces never would (a negative cost of capital), actual market actors will hoover up more and more of the savings repelled by central banks in a sense begging to beput out to pasture.John Tamny,Forbes, 6 Oct. 2021As Virginia prepares to legalize adult possession of up to an ounce of marijuana on July 1, drug-sniffing police dogs from around the state are being forced into early retirement, following a trend in other states where legalization has led to K-9s beingput out to pasture earlier than planned.Denise Lavoie,Anchorage Daily News, 29 May 2021

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“Put out to pasture.”Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/put%20out%20to%20pasture. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.

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