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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.
See also: daisy, push, up

push up daisies

Slang
To be dead and buried: a cemetery of heroes pushing up daisies.
See also: daisy, push, up

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
LudwigLOOT-vikh, LOOT-vikGerman
BoŻYdarbaw-ZHI-dahrPolish
Tipene-Maori
Reginarə-JEEN-ə (English), rə-GEEN-ə (English), rə-JIEN-ə (English), re-GEE-nah (German, Polish), re-JEE-nah (Italian), RE-gee-naw (Hungarian)English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Lithuanian, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Swedish, Norweg
Ximo-Catalan, Spanish
Kumikokoo-mee-koJapanese
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