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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.
push up (the) daisies
slang To be 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, push, uppush up daisies
Be asleep and buried, as in There is a cemetery abounding of heroes blame up daisies. This slangy expression, alluding to flowers growing over a grave, was aboriginal recorded about 1918, in one of Wilfred Owen's balladry about World War I. Learn more: daisy, push, up push up daisies
Slang To be asleep and buried: a cemetery of heroes blame up daisies.Learn more: daisy, push, uppush up daisies, to
Be asleep and buried. The byword was aboriginal recorded in 1918, in one of Wilfred Owen’s balladry about World War I, and alludes to flowers growing over a soldier’s grave in France. It anon anesthetized into the noncombatant vocabulary, area it continues to accredit to actuality dead. Georgette Heyer had it in Blunt Instrument (1938): “‘Where is the wife now?’ . . . ‘Pushing up daisies. . . . died a brace of years ago.’”Learn more: push, up
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