pushing up daisies
Buried and gone
Dead and buried.
The image is of a corpse underground, fertilizing the flowers growing above the grave.
The phrase is informal and often darkly humorous: If you keep driving like that, you'll be pushing up daisies.
Usually appears with *be*: He's been pushing up daisies for twenty years now.
Serious and worrying
- cemeteryPlace for interring remains
- burialPlacing deceased underground
- deceasedNo longer living
- departedHaving left
dead · perished · lifeless · coffin · tombstone · six feet under · underground · interred
Died, colloquially
- bought the farmSlang for dying
- passed awayDied, said gently
- sleeping with the fishesKilled and dumped underwater
- bit the dustDied or failed completely
expired · eternal rest · checked out · no longer with us · shuffled off this mortal coil · gone to glory · given up the ghost · gone west
White-rayed composite flowers
- flowersPlant reproductive structures
- grave flowersFloral tributes at burial sites
- rootsUnderground nutrient absorbers
- soilGround matter for planting
growing · blooming · fertilizing · garden · meadow · wildflowers · pastoral · springtime
Joking about grim subjects
- dark comedyComedy treating grim topics lightly
- deadpanExpressionless, especially for humor
- ironyMeaning opposite to words
- sardonicGrimly mocking
black humor · macabre · tongue-in-cheek · wry · irreverent · tragicomic · whistling past the graveyard · comedic relief
grave
Serious and worrying
departed · dead · perished · lifeless · coffin · tombstone · six feet under · underground · interred · remains
kicked the bucket
Died, colloquially
- bought the farmSlang for dying
- passed awayDied, said gently
- sleeping with the fishesKilled and dumped underwater
bit the dust · expired · eternal rest · checked out · no longer with us · shuffled off this mortal coil · gone to glory · given up the ghost · gone west
daisies
White-rayed composite flowers
- flowersPlant reproductive structures
- grave flowersFloral tributes at burial sites
- rootsUnderground nutrient absorbers
soil · growing · blooming · fertilizing · garden · meadow · wildflowers · pastoral · springtime · cemetery grounds
gallows humor
Joking about grim subjects
- dark comedyComedy treating grim topics lightly
- deadpanExpressionless, especially for humor
- ironyMeaning opposite to words
sardonic · black humor · macabre · tongue-in-cheek · wry · irreverent · tragicomic · whistling past the graveyard · comedic relief
pushing up daisiesalive
Having current existence
living · alive and kicking · breathing · surviving · alive and well
pushing up daisiesthriving
Succeeding vigorously
flourishing · full of life · in the pink · hale and hearty · fit as a fiddle