boot upstairs

present singular third person boots upstairs · participle present booting upstairs · participle past booted upstairs · past booted upstairs

1. Synonym of kick upstairs.

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   Faced with slowing foreign investment and a revenue squeeze, Pranab Mukherjee, until recently the finance minister, bizarrely attacked foreign investors, such as Vodafone, and retrospectively tried to rewrite tax rules. That spread uncertainty. Fortunately in July he was booted upstairs to become president.

   2012 September 29, “India: Aim Higher”, in The Economist, number Sep 29th 2012, Special Report, archived from the original on 12 Mar 2023

   Synonyms: kick upstairs