kick downstairs

Questions about kick downstairs

What does kick downstairs mean?

kick downstairs means "assign to a lower position; reduce in rank".

What is another word for kick downstairs?

Close synonyms include demote, bump, relegate, break. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is kick downstairs a common word?

kick downstairs is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.