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push up daisies

push up daisies verb: to be dead.

Verb

push up daisies (third-person singular simple present pushes up daisies, present participle pushing up daisies, simple past and past participle pushed up daisies)

  1. (euphemistic, humorous, idiomatic) To be dead.

push up daisies meaning in Bengali

push up daisies in Bengali

মৃত হওয়া

Forms of push up daisies

third-person singular presentpushes up daisies
present participlepushing up daisies
past participlepushed up daisies
pastpushed up daisies
alternative formpush daisies
alternative formpush up the daisies

Origin of push up daisies

In allusion to the daisy flowers growing over a dead person's grave. Originated in World War I.

Words formed from push up daisies

Questions about push up daisies

What does push up daisies mean?
Push up daisies means to be dead.
What is push up daisies in Bengali?
Push up daisies in Bengali is মৃত হওয়া. See Push up daisies meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is push up daisies?
Push up daisies is a verb.
What is the past tense of push up daisies?
The past tense of push up daisies is pushed up daisies.

Words near push up daisies in the dictionary

  1. push times
  2. push together
  3. push under
  4. push up
  5. push up against
  6. push up daisies
  7. push up on
  8. push up the daisies
  9. push water uphill
  10. push wood
  11. push-and-pull

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: push up daisies (page history and authors); push up daisies (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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