push up the daisies
Lie in ground
To push up the daisies is to be dead and buried—the image being of a body decomposing underground, feeding the flowers growing above.
The phrase is darkly humorous, used to speak of death with irreverent lightness: When I'm pushing up the daisies, I won't care what happens to my stuff.
- deceasedNo longer living
- dearly departedEuphemism for the dead
- graveSerious and worrying
- buriedPlaced beneath earth
- cemeteryPlace for interring remains
buy the farm · earth · bite the dust · memento mori · funeral · interred · tombstone · croaked · soil · mortuary · bone · rest in peace · worm · worm food · passed away · meet one's maker · gone to glory · corpse
life status
push up the daisiesalive and kicking
Healthy and active
alive · alive and well · breathing · full of life · hale and hearty
push, pushes, pushed, pushing, pusher, pushers, daisies, uppers