See put out to pasture in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "They've put John out to pasture and replaced him with someone who's got half his experience.",
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"ref": "1978 December 23, anonymous author, “More Angry Young Men”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 22, page 2:",
"text": "Your institutions were important stepping stones. Now they rot. Continuous revolution goes on and you're not with it with your alcoholic, tawdry, self-indulgent subculture. Put out to pasture your dialectic writers, they deserve a good green one, but the revolution must go on.",
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"ref": "2021 April 20, Glenn Thrush, quoting George W. Bush, “George W. Bush calls the current G.O.P. ‘isolationist, protectionist’ and ‘nativist.’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:",
"text": "“But I’m just an old guy they put out to pasture — a simple painter,” added the 43rd president, who said he published the book to “elevate” the discourse around immigration.",
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"To make someone retire, especially due to advancing age."
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"(informal) To make someone retire, especially due to advancing age."
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