put out to pasture

Senso (Inglese)

1. (informal) To make someone retire, especially due to advancing age.
2. (informal) To discontinue something.
3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see put out, to, pasture.

sinonimi

grazing

herd

pasturing

herding the cattle

stock grazing

turning to pasture

grazing the cattle

Etimologia (Inglese)

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