"kick upstairs" meaning in English

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    },
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      "form": "kicking upstairs",
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        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kicked upstairs",
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        "past"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "kicked upstairs",
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        "past"
      ]
    }
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "text": "2012, The Economist, Sep 29th 2012 issue, Special Report, India: Aim Higher\nFaced 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."
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To promote (an employee considered troublesome) to a position of lesser influence, but of apparently higher status."
      ],
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        [
          "promote",
          "promote"
        ],
        [
          "influence",
          "influence"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, informal, idiomatic) To promote (an employee considered troublesome) to a position of lesser influence, but of apparently higher status."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "kick up"
        },
        {
          "word": "fail upwards"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "boot upstairs"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "informal",
        "transitive"
      ],
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          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "to promote a troublesome employee to a position of lesser influence",
          "word": "wegpromoveren"
        }
      ]
    }
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  "word": "kick upstairs"
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    {
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      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kicked upstairs",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kicked upstairs",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
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    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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    {
      "word": "kick up"
    },
    {
      "word": "fail upwards"
    }
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        {
          "text": "2012, The Economist, Sep 29th 2012 issue, Special Report, India: Aim Higher\nFaced 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."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To promote (an employee considered troublesome) to a position of lesser influence, but of apparently higher status."
      ],
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        [
          "promote",
          "promote"
        ],
        [
          "influence",
          "influence"
        ]
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        "(transitive, informal, idiomatic) To promote (an employee considered troublesome) to a position of lesser influence, but of apparently higher status."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "boot upstairs"
        }
      ],
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        "idiomatic",
        "informal",
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to promote a troublesome employee to a position of lesser influence",
      "word": "wegpromoveren"
    }
  ],
  "word": "kick upstairs"
}