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put out to grass



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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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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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