put out to pasture

put someone out to pasture

to make someone stop working at their job because they are too old to be useful. He felt he was still too young to be put out to pasture.

See also: pasture

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put someone out to pasture

to make someone stop working at their job because they are too old to be useful. At 62, he felt he was not ready to be put out to pasture.

Etymology: based on the tradition of keeping farm animals that are too old to work in a pasture (= land covered with grass)

See also: pasture