kick upstairs

• POS: Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: kick up=stairs

THESAURUS

kick upstairs

advance, aggrandize, boot, bounce, break, bump, bust, can, cashier, deconsecrate, defrock, degrade, demote, deplume, depose, deprive, dethrone, disbar, discharge, discrown, disemploy, disenthrone, dismiss, displace, displume, drum out, elevate, ennoble, exalt, excommunicate, expel, fire, furlough, give the ax, give the gate, graduate, kick, knight, lay off, let go, let out, liquidate, make redundant, oust, overthrow, pass, pension, pension off, prefer, promote, purge, raise, read out of, release, remove, remove from office, replace, retire, sack, separate forcibly, strip, strip of office, strip of rank, superannuate, surplus, suspend, turn off, turn out, unchurch, unfrock, unsaddle, unseat, unthrone, up, upgrade