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idiombe put out to pasture(also be put out to grass BrE)to be made to leave your job because you are too old:It's quite difficult to arrange your financial affairs so that you have a decent income after you've been put out to pasture.In jazz, blues, and folk music they don't put you out to pasture for getting older - they acknowledge that you're getting better.Some of the older political veterans had been put out to grass, and naturally they resented this.
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