push 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.^[1]

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push up daisies (third-person singular simple present pushes up daisies, present participle pushing up daisies, simple past and past participle pushed up daisies)

1. (idiomatic, euphemistic or humorous) To be dead.

• turn up one's toes to the daisies

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