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
Betts	[bets]
Abhay	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi
Amika	ah-MEE-kah	Esperanto
Reetta	RE:T-tah	Finnish
Bateman	['beitmən]
Shoshannah	-	Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew