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
Meindert	-	Dutch
Mattanyahu	-	Biblical Hebrew
Petty	['peti]
Valentin	['væləntin]
Hadufuns	-	Ancient Germanic
Parvin	-	Persian, Azerbaijani