Kick the cat
A higher-ranking person taking out frustration on a lower-ranking person / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Kick the cat, also sometimes kick the dog, is a metaphor used to describe how a relatively high-ranking person in an organization or family displaces their frustrations by abusing a lower-ranking person, who may in turn take it out on their own subordinate.