daisies 관용구

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pushing up daisies

dead and buried in a graveyard, deep six Old Tom's pushin' up daisies. He died a long time ago.

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Pushing up the daisies

If someone is said to be pushing up the daisies, they are dead.

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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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push up daisies|daisies|daisy|push|push up

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.

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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.