kick sb upstairs
to give someone a new job that seems more powerful but is really less powerful, usually in order to stop them causing trouble for you
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Promoting staff
- aggrandizement
- ascend
- career-limiting
- demote
- depute
- exalt
- fast track
- free transfer
- handover
- in the wilderness idiom
- install
- rank
- relegate
- second 1
- subordination
- time-scale promotion
- transfer
- upgradation
- upshifter
- vault
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