# push up daisies

idiom

Source: https://englishreference.com/idiom/push-up-daisies
Updated: 2026-08-10

## Meaning

To be dead.

## 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.

## Origin

In allusion to the daisy flowers growing over a dead person's grave. Originated in World War I.

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