Work man used to be in races with antelope (3,5,4)
I believe the answer is:
the waste land
'work man used' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I can't tell whether this works.
'be in races with antelope' is the wordplay.
'be' becomes 'hewas' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'races' becomes 'tt' (Isle of Man Tourist Trophy races).
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'antelope' becomes 'eland' (eland is a kind of antelope).
'hewas' going within 'tt' is 'thewast'.
'thewast'+'eland'='THE WASTE LAND'
'to' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for the waste land that I've seen before include "Eliot poem -- talented Shaw (anag)" , "Scrub" , "TS Eliot's (barren?) poem?" , "Poem by T.S. Eliot" , "TS Eliot's long 1922 poem" .)