Idiom
push up daisies
Meaning
To be dead.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The old car will be pushing up daisies soon.”
“The criminal bragged that his enemies would be pushing up daisies before the week ended.”
“He realized that after a century of conflict, both the victors and the vanquished were long since pushing up daisies.”
Examples
simple
“The old car will be pushing up daisies soon.”
contextual
“The criminal bragged that his enemies would be pushing up daisies before the week ended.”
complex
“He realized that after a century of conflict, both the victors and the vanquished were long since pushing up daisies.”
Origin
In allusion to the daisy flowers growing over a dead person's grave. Originated in World War I.
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