Nixon stool
A "step up to new heights" furniture-device dat is so rugged dat you can casually kick it here and there around da floor without damaging it at all.
When ol' Tricky Doohickey said, "You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore" after he was ousted from Congress, he didn't realize that he could still have squatted on all-fours and served as a "Nixon stool" for the senators and representatives to bunt into place with their shoes and then climb up on to reach law-books on the higher shelves in the Library of Congress.