putting out to pasture
Ending active service
Putting out to pasture means retiring someone or something from active service, from the practice of letting old workhorses graze in fields rather than labor.
The phrase often carries connotations of being forced out or deemed obsolete: After thirty years, they're putting him out to pasture.
It can apply to ideas, equipment, or practices as well as people: Time to put that old software out to pasture.
- put out to grassForced into retirement
- superannuationRetirement savings scheme
- over the hillPast one's peak
- sunsettedDeliberately phased out
- severanceTermination pay or disconnection
past one's prime · redundancy · forced out · given the boot · retirement · golden handshake · pension · ejectment · demobilization · end of the road · mothballing · displacement · obsolescence · decommissioning · stepping down · golden parachute · resignation · bowing out
putting out to pasturepromoting
Actively supporting or furthering
hiring · recruiting · activating · reinstating · onboarding
putting out to pasturepromoting
Actively supporting or furthering
elevating · fast-tracking · developing · championing · leaning on
putting out to pastureactivating
Causing to function
mobilizing · deploying · putting to work · reactivating · unleashing
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