boot upstairs

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boot upstairs

verb boots upstairs · booting upstairs · booted upstairs

Synonym of kick upstairs. Faced with slowing foreign investment and a revenue squeeze, Pranab Mukherjee, until recently the finance minister, bizarrely attacked foreign investors, such as Vodafone, and retrospectively tried to rewrite tax rules. That spread uncertainty. Fortunately in July he was booted upstairs to become pr
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@misc{boot_upstairs_2026,
  title = {boot upstairs},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/boot%20upstairs},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}