push\ up\ daisies

push\ up\ daisies
v. phr. slang
To be dead and buried.

I'll be around when you're pushing up daisies.

Don't play with guns or you may push up the daisies.


Словарь американских идиом. — СПб., Изд-во "Лань". . 1997.

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