| 1. | any of various composite plants the flowers of which have a yellow disk and white rays, as the English daisy and the oxeye daisy. |
| 2. | Also called daisy ham. a small section of pork shoulder, usually smoked, boned, and weighing from two to four pounds. Compare picnic (def. 3). |
| 3. | Slang. someone or something of first-rate quality: That new car is a daisy. |
| 4. | a cheddar cheese of cylindrical shape, weighing about 20 pounds. |
| 5. | push up daisies, Informal. to be dead and buried. |

push (pŏŏsh) v. pushed, push·ing, push·es v. tr.
push around Informal To treat or threaten to treat roughly; intimidate. push off Informal To set out; depart: The infantry patrol pushed off before dawn. push onTo continue or proceed along one's way: The path was barely visible, but we pushed on. Idiom(s): push paper Informal To have one's time taken up by administrative, often seemingly petty, paperwork: spent the afternoon pushing paper for the boss. Idiom(s): push up daisies Slang To be dead and buried: a cemetery of heroes pushing up daisies. Idiom(s): when/if push comes to shoveAt a point when or if all else has been taken into account and matters must be confronted, one way or another: "We extol the virtues of motherhood and bestow praise on the self-sacrificing homemaker but when push comes to shove, we give her little recognition for what she does" (Los Angeles Times). [Middle English pusshen, from Old French poulser, pousser, from Latin pulsāre, frequentative of pellere, to strike, push; see pel-5 in Indo-European roots.] Synonyms: These verbs mean to press against something in order to move it forward or aside: push a baby carriage; wind propelling a sailboat; shove a tray across a table; thrust the package into her hand. See Also Synonyms at campaign. |
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Be dead and buried, as in There is a cemetery full of heroes pushing up daisies. This slangy expression, alluding to flowers growing over a grave, was first recorded about 1918, in one of Wilfred Owen's poems about World War I.