put out to pasture

Meaning

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.

Synonyms

grazing

herd

pasturing

herding the cattle

stock grazing

turning to pasture

grazing the cattle

Etymology

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