kick upstairs (English, verb)
expansion: kick upstairs (third-person singular simple present kicks upstairs, present participle kicking upstairs, simple past and past participle kicked upstairs)
Senses:
glosses: To promote (an employee considered troublesome) to a position of lesser influence, but of apparently higher status.
tags: idiomatic
informal
transitive
Forms:
form: kicks upstairs
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: kicking upstairs
tags: participle
present
form: kicked upstairs
tags: participle
past
form: kicked upstairs
tags: past