boot upstairs

English

Verb

boot upstairs (third-person singular simple present boots upstairs, present participle booting upstairs, simple past and past participle booted upstairs)

  1. Synonym of kick upstairs.
    • 2012 September 29, “India: Aim Higher”, in The Economist‎[1], number Sep 29th 2012, Special Report, archived from the original on 12 March 2023:
      Faced with slowing foreign investment and a revenue squeeze, Pranab Mukherjee, until recently the finance minister, bizarrely attacked foreign investors, such as Vodafone, and retrospectively tried to rewrite tax rules. That spread uncertainty. Fortunately in July he was booted upstairs to become president.
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