be put out to grass
be put out to grass
To be forced, coerced, or pressured into retiring from one's work. The CEO shaped the company into what it is today, but the board of directors has decided that she needs to be put out to grass simply because she's getting older.
See also: grass, out, put
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
be put out to grass
If someone is put out to grass, they are made to retire from their job, or they are moved to a less important job, because people think that they are too old to be useful. As for the presenters of the show, they should have been put out to grass long ago. The Prime Minister refused to be put out to grass. Asked if he would quit, he replied `The answer is no.' Compare with put someone out to pasture. Note: When horses have reached the end of their working lives, they are sometimes released into fields to graze.
See also: grass, out, put
Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed.
- bring (someone) to heel
- bring someone to heel
- bring to heel
- call (someone) to heel
- a/the fish rots from the head down
- a/the fish stinks from the head down
- catch a tiger by the tail
- cook the books
- cook the accounts
- be had up (for something)