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Meanings of kick downstairs in English

Assign to a lower position; reduce in rank.

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Usage of kick downstairs in English
1
The kind of man one wants to kick downstairs.
Maurice Guest
2
Do you want to be kicked downstairs?
The Town Traveller
3
Only two days before he had been dragged out of his hiding-place in the Manchester station and kicked downstairs.
The Short Line War
4
To have heard her, you would have thought that the cure and the Cardinal ought to be kicked downstairs.
Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 1...
5
He would soon feel the measure of Goliath's foot-inplain words, he would find himself kicked downstairs by Amias Keston.
Herb of Grace
6
"Gad, I believe he's been kicked downstairs by an indignant husband!"
The Man from the Clouds
7
Kennedy was reviewing a particularly bad translation that had been kicked downstairs by someone on the intel side of the building.
American assassin
8
When at last this wretch was kicked downstairs, the effect had been only to make room for a fresh lot of bloodsuckers.
The Market-Place
9
Said an Irishman who had several times been kicked downstairs: "I begin to think they don't want me around here."
It Can Be Done: Poems of Inspiration
10
"You ought to be kicked downstairs for that."
Castle Craneycrow
11
"The one that you kicked downstairs?"
Esther Waters