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kick upstairs

楼上踢球,楼上踢,楼上踢人,楼上踢腿

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v.动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : informal to promote to a nominally higher but effectively powerless position

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Examples

  • 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.