KICKED UPSTAIRS

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a term used to describe promoting a person to a higher position because his ineffectiveness and inefficiencies are causing too much trouble where he is and will cause less trouble in the higher position. The term was first associated with the promotion of representatives from the House of Commons to the House of Lords in the UK.