kick upstairs

Questions about kick upstairs

What does kick upstairs mean?

kick upstairs means "give a promotion to or assign to a higher position".

What is another word for kick upstairs?

Close synonyms include promote, upgrade, advance, raise, elevate. 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 upstairs a common word?

kick upstairs 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.