English Dictionary

kick upstairs

verb

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

The manager decided to kick him upstairs to a higher position in the company.

意味（1）

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

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.