put out to pasture

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put someone out to pasture

Fig. to retire someone. (Based on put a horse out to pasture.) Please don't put me out to pasture. I have lots of good years left. This vice president has reached retirement age. It's time to put him out to pasture.

See also: out, pasture, put

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Staff at the centre, which doubles as the Riding for the Disabled stables, have now decided he should be put out to pasture. Time for Cheeky to take it easy by Coventry Evening Telegraph (England) Byline: TONY JAMSON I HAVE always considered The Journal to be fair in its reporting of news and politics, so isn't it time that you put out to pasture your columnist, Willie Poole? Letter: Voice of the North - No more Poole, please by The Journal (Newcastle, England) Perhaps it can help some of your readers who refuse to be put out to pasture. Mature artists, mature art by Nielsen, Eric Brandt / Dance Magazine			put on an act put on hold put on ice put on paper put on the cuff put on the dog put on the map put on the shelf put on the spot put on the street put on weight put one at ease put one foot in front of the other put one in place put one off stride put one on guard put one on honor put one through paces put oneself out put out a warrant put out feelers put out of put out of mind put out of misery put out of the way put out to pasture put over knee put over the top put own house in order put paid to put pen to paper put people or things together put people's heads together put plainly put pressure on put right put roots down put shirt on put shoulder to the wheel put some creature out of its misery put some distance between put some teeth into put teeth into Put that in your pipe and smoke it! put the arm on put the bite on put the blame on put the boot in put the brakes on put the cart before the horse put the cat among the pigeons			put out put out put out put out put out a warrant put out at interest put out feelers put out feelers put out of put out of action put out of combat put out of commission put out of countenance put out of house by legal process put out of joint put out of matrimony put out of mind put out of mind put out of mind put out of mind put out of mind put out of misery put out of place put out of possession put out of sight put out of the way put out of the way put out of their misery put out of their misery put out of wedlock put out to pasture put out to sea put out to sea put out to sea put out to sea put out to tender put out to tender put out to tender put out to tender put out to tender put over put over put over put over put over knee put over the top put over to a future date put own house in order put paid to put paid to put paid to put paid to put paid to put pen to paper put pen to paper put pen to paper put pen to paper put pen to paper put pen to paper put people or things together put people's heads together

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