Wiktionary
vb. 1 (&lit put out to pasture English) 2 (context idiomatic English) To make someone retire, especially due to advancing age. 3 (context idiomatic English) To discontinue something.
Usage examples of "put out to pasture".
Joe Braddock was close to senile, in my opinion, and should have been put out to pasture eons ago.
She could remember no such horse in the Sforza stables, and she knew every one of them, from the newborn colts to the old warhorses put out to pasture.
The physical assets are redistributed, the workers find new jobs, and the poor management which generally caused the problem is put out to pasture.
That left the other creature, one that's put out to pasture and allowed to roam free until it is needed.
I could hear the two dairy cows mooing in the barn when they should have already been milked and put out to pasture.
He looked like an old bull that had been put out to pasture because he couldn&rsquo.
I believe she lived there all her life after she left the manor,with her little white horse put out to pasture on the slopes ofParadise Hill.
Twice a year picked young men are sent to their separate villages of women, there to sire a new generation, as stallions are put out to pasture with the mares.
Pegasus was put out to pasture and now can scarcely clear the clover.