kick upstairs 的定义
- informal to promote to a nominally higher but effectively powerless position
kick upstairs 近义词
give a promotion
更多kick upstairs例句
- When fathers hold and play with their children, oxytocin and prolactin kick in, priming them for bonding.
- Eventually, Weirich had to kick out her jacuzzi and plants from her sunroom, where she now holds court.
- Upstairs, in the living room, splintered logs of hemlock cackled and spat from inside the wood stove.
- Ramone, who turned to religion while trying to kick drugs, would probably approve (and laugh a little, too).
- Keith Green finds Ramone at the Chelsea, trying to kick heroin for good.
- The latter trod on the toes of the former, whereupon the former threatened to "kick out of the cabin" the latter.
- The governor went upstairs and found Juan de Messa in the hall.
- The Professor put down his cards without a word, and left the room, going straight upstairs.
- And with that the host gave him such a kick as sent him howling into the street, amidst the roars of the company.
- I knowed, a-course, that I could go kick up a fuss when Simpson stopped by his office on his trip back from Goldstone.