Kick Upstairs Meaning

Kick Upstairs is an idiom. The meaning of this idiom is (transitive, idiomatic) To promote (an employee considered troublesome) to a position of lesser influence, but of apparently higher status.. Explore more Idiom Meanings.

Kick Upstairs

(transitive, idiomatic) To promote (an employee considered troublesome) to a position of lesser influence, but of apparently higher status.

Example : 2012, The Economist, Sep 29th 2012 issue, Special Report, India: Aim Higher  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.

Meaning of Kick Upstairs

Kick Upstairs is an idiom. It is one of the most commonly used expressions in English writings. Kick Upstairs stands for (transitive, idiomatic) To promote (an employee considered troublesome) to a position of lesser influence, but of apparently higher status.. Explore Urdupoint to find out more popular Idioms and Idiom Meanings, to amplify your writings

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