kick upstairs

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kick upstairs (third-person singular simple present kicks upstairs, present participle kicking upstairs, simple past and past participle kicked upstairs)

  1. (transitive, informal, idiomatic) To promote (an employee considered troublesome) to a position of lesser influence, but of apparently higher status.
    Synonym: boot upstairs

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