push up daisies

Idioms and Phrases

Be dead and buried, as in There is a cemetery full of heroes pushing up daisies . This slangy expression, alluding to flowers growing over a grave, was first recorded about 1918, in one of Wilfred Owen's poems about World War I.

Example Sentences

Maybe they'll get it when I go To push up daisies.

From Project Gutenberg

A lady also seen, walking down a very steep descent, concluded that she too would rather push up daisies in Shenandoah valley than ferns on old Massanutten.

From Project Gutenberg