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pushing up daisies 

A phrase used to describe someone dead. You will be in the ground dead so therefore daisies will grow on you, and you will be "pushing up daisies"
Joe "Hey i don't like you"
Steve "You wanna fight?"
Joe "Don't fight me or you'll be pushing up daisies"

Bill "Did you hear about Steve?"
Tom "Ya i heard he got into a fight"
Bill "Ya, now he's just pushing up daisies."
pushing up daisies by koolkid... October 7, 2009

pushing up daisies 

Pushing up daisies 

A nicer way of saying that someone is dead
Its so sad to think that my grandpa is pushing up daisies
Pushing up daisies by Ncg13 April 16, 2017

Pushing up Daisies 

Being dead. Kicked the bucket. Gone. Out. Done-zo.
Guy 1: "Hey Guy 2-... Where is Guy 2?"
Guy 3: "He's pushing up daisies."
Guy 1: :(
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)
fogey by Petyush September 14, 2005
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