Meanings of kick upstairs in английском

But Casey was kicked upstairs after the Iraq war went south.

He'll immediately begin empire-building and get himself kicked upstairs, say sources.

He kicked upstairs, and upstairs again, taking the stairs three at a leap.

To some rival executives, this was a sign that Lewis had been kicked upstairs.

There was some snarky discussion about Schmidt getting kicked upstairs or marginalized, but I don't think that's the case.

It's rarer still for an officer to be given one of the service chiefdoms for a few weeks before getting kicked upstairs.

That time came in 2011, when Page returned as CEO and Schmidt was kicked upstairs to be Google's chairman and chief explainer.

Brady gets kicked upstairs and you're the new head of Design-fora twenty percent pay hike: That's what he told me to tell you.

Kicked upstairs or not, it is clear that Lewis, sitting in his glass-walled office overlooking the Telegraph's giant newsroom, couldn't be happier with the move.