push up daisies
Kevin
Could anyone here please tell why "push up daisies" means "to be dead
and buried"? I mean the origin of the slang. With thanks.
Kevin in Hong Kong
Barb Knox
<58ed006b-8a17-40b0...@z10g2000prh.googlegroups.com>,
Kevin <par...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello -
>
> Could anyone here please tell why "push up daisies" means "to be dead
> and buried"? I mean the origin of the slang. With thanks.
Off the top of my head, the flowers growing over your grave can be
metaphorically considered to be being pushed up by you, and daisies are
a common flower (although I don't know how common they actually are on
graves sites).
> Kevin in Hong Kong
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Kevin
> In article
> <58ed006b-8a17-40b0-ad14-c30cc9ec8...@z10g2000prh.googlegroups.com>,
>
> Kevin <paro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello -
>
> > Could anyone here please tell why "push up daisies" means "to be dead
> > and buried"? I mean the origin of the slang. With thanks.
>
> Off the top of my head, the flowers growing over your grave can be
> metaphorically considered to be being pushed up by you, and daisies are
> a common flower (although I don't know how common they actually are on
> graves sites).
>
> > Kevin in Hong Kong
>
> --
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> | BBB b \ Barbara at LivingHistory stop co stop uk
> | B B aa rrr b |
> | BBB a a r bbb | Quidquid latine dictum sit,
> | B B a a r b b | altum viditur.
> | BBB aa a r bbb |
> -----------------------------
Thanks Barb - Even rest in peace have to be so busy. :)
Kevin
mm
wrote:
>On Nov 25, 12:34�pm, Barb Knox <s...@sig.below> wrote:
>> In article
>> <58ed006b-8a17-40b0-ad14-c30cc9ec8...@z10g2000prh.googlegroups.com>,
>>
>> �Kevin <paro...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hello -
>>
>> > Could anyone here please tell why "push up daisies" means "to be dead
>> > and buried"? I mean the origin of the slang. With thanks.
>>
>> Off the top of my head, the flowers growing over your grave can be
>> metaphorically considered to be being pushed up by you, and daisies are
>> a common flower (although I don't know how common they actually are on
>> graves sites).
Yes, to all of that.
>> > Kevin in Hong Kong
>>
>
>Thanks Barb - Even rest in peace have to be so busy. :)
>Kevin
That's right. They have work to do. Push, push, push.
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John Dean
> On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:48:18 -0800 (PST), Kevin <par...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Nov 25, 12:34 pm, Barb Knox <s...@sig.below> wrote:
>>> In article
>>> <58ed006b-8a17-40b0-ad14-c30cc9ec8...@z10g2000prh.googlegroups.com>,
>>>
>>> Kevin <paro...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hello -
>>>
>>>> Could anyone here please tell why "push up daisies" means "to be
>>>> dead and buried"? I mean the origin of the slang. With thanks.
>>>
>>> Off the top of my head, the flowers growing over your grave can be
>>> metaphorically considered to be being pushed up by you, and daisies
>>> are a common flower (although I don't know how common they actually
>>> are on graves sites).
>
> Yes, to all of that.
>
>>>
>>
>> Kevin
>
> That's right. They have work to do. Push, push, push.
In Saxony, I heard, they sometimes used to put the ashes of the cremated
into an hourglass.
"Yes, Lisl, in death even Grossmutti must work"
--
John Dean
Oxford
John Varela
> In article
> <58ed006b-8a17-40b0...@z10g2000prh.googlegroups.com>,
> Kevin <par...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello -
> >
> > Could anyone here please tell why "push up daisies" means "to be dead
> > and buried"? I mean the origin of the slang. With thanks.
>
> Off the top of my head, the flowers growing over your grave can be
> metaphorically considered to be being pushed up by you, and daisies are
> a common flower (although I don't know how common they actually are on
> graves sites).
In the graveyard in the canyon
Where the myrtle doth entwine
There grow rosies and other posies
Fertilized by Clementine.
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John Varela
Trade NEWlamps for OLDlamps for email
Pavel314
> On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:34:20 UTC, Barb Knox <s...@sig.below> wrote:
> > In article
> > Kevin <paro...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Hello -
>
> > > Could anyone here please tell why "push up daisies" means "to be dead
> > > and buried"? I mean the origin of the slang. With thanks.
>
> > Off the top of my head, the flowers growing over your grave can be
> > metaphorically considered to be being pushed up by you, and daisies are
> > a common flower (although I don't know how common they actually are on
> > graves sites).
>
> In the graveyard in the canyon
> Where the myrtle doth entwine
> There grow rosies and other posies
> Fertilized by Clementine.
>
> --
> John Varela
> Trade NEWlamps for OLDlamps for email
From the online etymology dictionary at http://www.etymonline.com/
Pushing up daisies "dead" is attested from 1918, but variant with the
same meaning go back to 1842.
Paul
Odysseus
<930c726e-fe49-4e68...@j24g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>,
Pavel314 <pin...@jhmi.edu> wrote:
<snip>
> From the online etymology dictionary at http://www.etymonline.com/
>
> Pushing up daisies "dead" is attested from 1918, but variant with the
> same meaning go back to 1842.
The same source has under PUSH (v.): "_push up daisies_ 'be dead and
buried' is from c.1860." (The preceding citation is from the DAISY
article.)
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Odysseus
Odysseus
mm <NOPSAM...@bigfoot.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:48:18 -0800 (PST), Kevin <par...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
<snip>
> >Even rest in peace have to be so busy. :)
>
> That's right. They have work to do. Push, push, push.
Not to mention making sure the worms are fed, attending choir-invisible
rehearsals, travelling about undiscovered countries, and whatnot.
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Odysseus