kick downstairs

I have seen an immense deal of courtesy shown under such circumstances to men whom I should have liked to see kicked downstairs.

The only thing that ever happens is that the hero is kicked downstairs.

The story ended with Nicolini being kicked downstairs and the press commented upon the episode with an apt couplet from Schiller to the effect that "life is hard, but merry is art!"

If it were true that I was kicked downstairs I would ask members of the House of Commons on whom the shame, on whom the disgrace, on whom the stigma?

Getting kicked downstairs was Wasp’s usual method of going below.