2025 · Q40
Directions: In the following items an idiom or a proverb is given. Select the response that most appropriately describes the meaning of the idiom or proverb and mark your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly.
Put out to pasture
EnglishIdioms and Phrases
- ATo retire or render redundant
- BTo feed someone
- CTo diminish importance
- DTo incubate
Explanation
"Put out to pasture" alludes to horses retired from work to graze — it means to retire someone or render them redundant. It has nothing to do with feeding, diminishing importance in the abstract, or incubation. Option (A) is the idiom's sense.