put out to grass

Idioms  

1. Also, put out to pasture. Cause to retire, as in With mandatory retirement they put you out to grass at age 65, or She's not all that busy now that she's been put out to pasture. These idioms refer to farm animals sent to graze when they are no longer useful for other work.

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put out to grass

He has been put out to grass in Hamburg, the city that played host to the 9/11 conspirators.

From New York Times ● Jul. 17, 2014

We will just not accept being put out to grass.

From Time Magazine Archive

‘It’s not like the old days when they’d be sitting there for hours on end, like horses put out to grass.’

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

Sheep were grazing here and there, and two horses, put out to grass, looked at her listlessly as she passed.

From The Explorer by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

I also had my horse put out to grass, as he was very hungry, not having had anything to eat since noon the day before, and not much then.

From Thirty-One Years on the Plains and in the Mountains, Or, the Last Voice from the Plains An Authentic Record of a Life Time of Hunting, Trapping, Scouting and Indian Fighting in the Far West by William F. Drannan