push up daisies
Lie beneath ground
To push up daisies is to be dead and buried—the image being of a corpse underground, fertilizing the flowers growing above.
The phrase is darkly humorous, used to deflect the gravity of death: When I'm pushing up daisies, you can do whatever you want with the house.
Serious and worrying
- cemeteryPlace for interring remains
- tombstoneMemorial stone at grave
- graveyardPlot for interring the dead
- burialPlacing deceased underground
coffin · casket · headstone · plot · epitaph · interment · funeral · mausoleum
No longer living
afterlife · expiration · extinction · fatality · obituary · passed · gone · late
Died, colloquially
- bought the farmSlang for dying
- bit the dustDied or failed completely
- crossed overWent to the other side
- met one's makerDied, euphemistically speaking
gave up the ghost · shuffled off · gone to glory · sleeping · at peace · no longer with us · passed on · checked out
grave
Serious and worrying
- cemeteryPlace for interring remains
- tombstoneMemorial stone at grave
- graveyardPlot for interring the dead
burial · coffin · casket · headstone · plot · epitaph · interment · funeral · mausoleum · crypt
deceased
No longer living
mortality · afterlife · expiration · extinction · fatality · obituary · passed · gone · late · lost
kicked the bucket
Died, colloquially
- bought the farmSlang for dying
- bit the dustDied or failed completely
- crossed overWent to the other side
met one's maker · gave up the ghost · shuffled off · gone to glory · sleeping · at peace · no longer with us · passed on · checked out · croaked
wildflowers
Uncultivated flowering plants
soil · roots · garden · greenery · flora · blossom · fertilizer · worm food · decomposition · earthworms
push up daisiesalive
Having current existence
living · alive and kicking · breathing · alive and well · above ground
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