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kicking upstairsphrasepresent participle of kick upstairs to move higher in rank or positionAfter years of hard work she was kicked upstairs to an executive role. advancing, elevating, promoting, raising, upgrading forwarding, furtheringaggrandizing, boosting, heightening, improving, lifting, upliftingcommissioning, ennobling, knightingacclaiming, applauding, celebrating, citing, commending, complimenting, congratulating, decoratingeulogizing, exalting, extolling, glorifying, hailing, honoring, lauding, praising, saluting abasing, degrading, demoting, downgrading, lowering, reducing deposing, dethroning, dismissing, expelling, impeaching, ousting, overthrowing, removing, unmaking, unseatingdemeaning, disgracing, dishonoring, humbling, humiliating, mortifying, shaming, taking downcensuring, condemning, damning, denouncing, reprobating |