Kick up
The first consisted of the ministers, certain other high officials, and additional members the tsar chose to appoint, one being at this time the heir to the throne, Grand Duke Nicholas Aleksandrovich. The committee's chairman
was Nicholas Bunge, a former minister of finance. who had been kicked upstairs to this dead-end post, one that Witte was destined to occupy.
Did kick here have a negative meaning? Like kick out, banish?
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Vladv Did kick here have a negative meaning? Like kick out, banish? That is the source of the little joke.
- Vladv Did kick here have a negative meaning?
- Like kick out, banish?
- That is the source of the little joke.
- "To kick someone upstairs" is to promote him (upstairs) instead of firing him (instead of kicking him out) to get him out of the job he was doing poorly and move him to a position where he can't do much harm.
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VladvDid kick here have a negative meaning? Like kick out, banish?
That is the source of the little joke. "To kick someone upstairs" is to promote him (upstairs) instead of firing him (instead of kicking him out) to get him out of the job he was doing poorly and move him to a position where he can't do much harm.
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