push up daisies

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb

En-au-push up daisies.ogg

push up daisies pushes up daisies pushing up daisies pushed up daisies push daisies push up the daisies

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

turn up one's toes to the daisies

pushing up daisies

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