pushed up daisies
Gone for good
Pushed up daisies means dead and buried.
The image is of a corpse underground, fertilizing flowers that grow above it.
The phrase is informal and often darkly humorous: If you keep driving like that, you'll be pushing up daisies.
Usually appears as "pushing up daisies" in the progressive form.
- passed awayDied, said gently
- dearly departedEuphemism for the dead
- graveSerious and worrying
- wreathDecorative foliage circle
- tombstoneMemorial stone at grave
kicked the bucket · bought the farm · soil · funeral · corpse · cemetery · six feet under · burial · dead and buried · afterlife · flowerbed · obituary · compost · worm food · shuffled off this mortal coil · roots · cremation · mourning