put a horse out to pasture

put a horse out to pasture
put a horse out to pasture
to retire a horse by allowing it to live out its days in a pasture with no work. (See also put someone out to pasture.) •

The horse could no longer work, so we put it out to pasture.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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