🌼 Push Up Daisies, To
Meaning:
To be dead and buried. The phrase evokes the imagery of flowers, specifically daisies, growing over a grave.
Origins:
First recorded in 1918, in one of Wilfred Owen’s poignant World War I poems. The imagery of flowers flourishing amid the devastation gives a bitter-sweet undertone. The civilian tongue adopted this phrase, keeping its metaphorical bloom well-nurtured.
Georgette Heyer’s “Blunt Instrument” (1938) offers a chilling yet casual usage: “‘Where is the wife now?’ ‘Pushing up daisies… died a couple of years ago.’“.
Synonyms and Similar Expressions:
- Kick the bucket
- Bite the dust
- Sleep with the fishes
- Meet your maker
- Take a dirt nap
- Cash in one’s chips
Antonyms:
- Alive and kicking
- Full of beans
- In the land of the living
Related Quotations:
- “Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.” - Mark Twain
- “Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.” - George Bernard Shaw
Proverbs:
- “Death is a skeleton with light eyes, branching lights on the footsteps of a deadfall sky.”
Recommending Literature and Media:
- Literature: “The Book Thief” by Markus Zusak
- Movies: “The Sixth Sense” (1999)
- Poetry: “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” by Dylan Thomas
- Songs: “Live and Let Die” by Paul McCartney & Wings
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Farewell Thought 🌟
“The tales we tell about our own eventual departure from this world might be steeped in flowers and wit. While pushing up daisies might not be our final act, may the seeds we plant today blossom into stories worth sharing.”
โปรดระลึกไว้, ใช้วันของคุณ 🌸
-Dee Deceased
