| 单词 | kick downstairs |
| 释义 | kick downstairs (once / 251475 pages) v WORD FAMILY kick downstairs: kicked downstairs, kicking downstairs USAGE EXAMPLESI have seen an immense deal of courtesy shown under such circumstances to men whom I should have liked to see kicked downstairs. Marryatt, Florence, There is no Death(2012) The only thing that ever happens is that the hero is kicked downstairs. Various, Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol...(2012) Getting kicked downstairs was Wasp’s usual method of going below. Stables, Gordon, Aileen Aroon, A Memoir—With other T...(2011) v assign to a lower position; reduce in rank Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper break, bump, demote, relegate advance, elevate, kick upstairs, promote, raise, upgrade give a promotion to or assign to a higher position sideline remove from the center of activity or attention; place into an inferior position reducebring to humbler or weaker state or condition assign, delegate, depute, designate give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person) |
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