send someone out to grass —(coll., also: put someone out to grass)
1. send smb. on a holiday:
- There were a few strange faces: three or four wives with children sent out to grass from Athens.
2. send a person into retirement:
- The consultant-incharge of our clinic has accepted retirement. At three score and ten it is time he was sent out to grass.
send someone to grass—(coll.) knock a person down:
- In the fifth round Billy caught Harry with a solid right and sent him to “grass” not to rise again.