Assign to a lower position; reduce in rank.
1The kind of man one wants to kick downstairs.
2Do you want to be kicked downstairs?
3Only two days before he had been dragged out of his hiding-place in the Manchester station and kicked downstairs.
4To have heard her, you would have thought that the cure and the Cardinal ought to be kicked downstairs.
5He would soon feel the measure of Goliath's foot-inplain words, he would find himself kicked downstairs by Amias Keston.
6"Gad, I believe he's been kicked downstairs by an indignant husband!"
7Kennedy was reviewing a particularly bad translation that had been kicked downstairs by someone on the intel side of the building.
8When at last this wretch was kicked downstairs, the effect had been only to make room for a fresh lot of bloodsuckers.
9Said an Irishman who had several times been kicked downstairs: "I begin to think they don't want me around here."
10"You ought to be kicked downstairs for that."
11"The one that you kicked downstairs?"