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 daisies

Slang

To be dead and buried: a cemetery of heroes pushing up daisies.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Nadim	-	Arabic, Urdu
Nayeli	-	Native American, Zapotec
Teague	-	Irish
Izar	-	Basque
Estebe	-	Basque
Sybella	si-BEL-ə	English (Rare)