wear lead boots

wear lead boots
   American
   to be ineligible for promotion
   As worn by the deep-sea diver, to keep him down:
    All his buddies in the department'11 do him favors today... but as for as going higher, he smelled bad, to the brass he was wearing lead boots. (Turow, 1993)

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