pushing up (the) daisies Idiom, Proverb
pushing up daisies
dead and buried in a graveyard, deep six Old Tom's pushin' up daisies. He died a long time ago.
Pushing up the daisies
If someone is said to be pushing up the daisies, they are dead.
Turn up one's toes to the daisies
If someone has turned up their toes to the daisies, it means that the person died.
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v. phr.,
slang To be dead and buried.
I'll be around when you're pushing up daisies. Don't play with guns or you may push up the daisies.
push up daisies
push up daisies Be dead and buried, as in
There is a cemetery full of heroes pushing up daisies. This slangy expression, alluding to flowers growing over a grave, was first recorded about 1918, in one of Wilfred Owen's poems about World War I.
pushing up (the) daisies
slang Deceased. The byword alludes to one accepting been buried, with daisies growing over one's burying plot. You'll be blame up daisies back Mom finds out that you biconcave her aboriginal car. I'll be blame up the daisies continued afore the amount of acreage goes down in our city.Learn more: daisy, pushing, uppushing up (the) daisies
Fig. asleep and buried. (Usually in the approaching tense.) I'll be blame up daisies afore this botheration is solved. If you allocution to me like that again, you'll be blame up the daisies.Learn more: daisy, pushing, uppushing up the daisies
asleep and buried. informal This phrase, a amusing aboriginal 20th-century euphemism, is now the best frequently acclimated of several daisy-related expressions for actuality in the grave. Other idioms accommodate under the daisies and turn your toes up to the daisies , both dating from the mid 19th century.Learn more: daisy, pushing, uppushing up daisies
mod. asleep and buried. (Folksy. Usually in the approaching tense.) I’ll be blame up daisies afore this botheration is solved. Learn more: daisy, pushing, up