单词 | to push up daisies |
释义 | > as lemmasto push up daisies c. Slang phrases: under the daisies, dead and buried; to push up daisies, to turn one's toes up to the daisies, to be in one's grave, to be dead. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)] > be dead sleepc950 restOE liea1000 to be deadc1000 to lie lowa1275 layc1300 to be gathered to one's fathersa1382 to be gathered to one's fathers1382 to sup with our Saviour, with Our (the) Lord, with (Jesus) Christa1400 repose1586 slumber1594 to sup in heaven or hell1642 to turn one's toes up to the daisies1842 to be out of the way1881 to push up daisiesa1918 to have had it1942 RIP1962 the world > life > death > dead person or the dead > [adjective] deadOE lifelessOE of lifeOE storvena1225 dead as a door-nail1362 ydead1387 stark deadc1390 colda1400 bypast1425 perishedc1440 morta1450 obita1450 unquickc1449 gone?a1475 dead and gone1482 extinct1483 departed1503 bygonea1522 amort1546 soulless1553 breathless1562 parted1562 mortified1592 low-laid1598 disanimate1601 carcasseda1603 defunct1603 no morea1616 with God1617 death-stricken1618 death-strucken1622 expired1631 past itc1635 incinerated1657 stock-dead1662 dead as a herring1664 death-struck1688 as dead as a nit1789 (as) dead as mutton1792 low1808 laid in the locker1815 strae-dead1820 disanimated1833 ghosted1834 under the daisies1842 irresuscitable1843 under the sod1847 toes up1851 dead and buried1863 devitalized1866 translated1869 dead and done (for, with)1886 daid1890 bung1893 (as) dead as the (or a) dodo1904 six feet under1942 brown bread1969 1842 R. H. Barham Babes in Wood in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 188 Be kind to those dear little folks When our toes are turned up to the daisies. 1866 G. MacDonald Ann. Quiet Neighb. I. xi. 356 I shall very soon hide [my name] under some daisies. a1918 W. Owen Coll. Poems (1963) 65 ‘Pushing up daisies’ is their creed, you know. 1928 S. Vines Humours Unreconciled xxi. 268 I think she's drinking herself under the daisies, so to speak. 1938 G. Heyer Blunt Instrument xiii. 252 ‘Where is the wife now?’.. ‘Pushing up daisies... Died..a couple of years ago.’ 1961 S. Chaplin Day of Sardine xiii. 245 Everybody goes to hell their own way and by the time you're privileged to be able to help a lost soul he'll be pushin' up daisies. 1970 Guardian 30 Dec. 9/6 In ten years time I think I should be pushing up daisies. < as lemmas |
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