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Today's expression, number 287.
It's kind of connected to yesterday.
If things go really bad, it's scary.
Great idiom.
Great, great idiom, but kind of scary.
Enjoy.
Let's go back in time.
Today's expression, it's not a good one.
It is a good one, but it's, well, it is scary.
Pushing up daisies.
P-U-S-H-I-N-G.
Pushing.
Like pushing a door open.
Or if you wear sunglasses or glasses like me, sometimes the glasses slide down my nose.
And I need to push up my glasses so that I can see.
So pushing up daisies.
That's a flower.
Flower.
Singular daisy, D-A-I-S-Y, daisies, plural, D-A-I-S-I-E-S, daisies, pushing up daisies.
What does this mean?
Well, the daisy, the flower, where do you find the daisy?
In a field.
Oh, yes.
Imagine a big field, a grassy field on a spring day or a summer day.
And you're running outside with your dog and it's beautiful.
And there's some daisies, some beautiful flowers in the field.
Oh, and you're watching a daisy and you see the daisy is close to the ground.
And then suddenly the daisy gets angry.
Higher and higher and higher.
It's as if somebody is under the ground pushing up the flower.
Who could be under the ground?
Well, a dead person.
If you are pushing up daisies, you are dead.
Yes, only dead people can push up daisies.
It means you're dead.
If you keep smoking, you're going to be pushing up daisies.
One day, all of us will be pushing up daisies.
Stop driving so fast.
You're going to make us push up daisies.
Yeah, pushing up daisies.
Don't say this with somebody you respect.
For example, if your uncle died, where is your uncle?
Oh, my uncle?
He's pushing up daisies.
It's possible.
You know, if you loved your uncle and if your uncle was a funny guy, yes, you could say it.
But usually we should say, oh, my uncle, he passed away.
He passed away.
He died.
That would be much better.
Pushing up daisies is kind of, it's a joke.
But sometimes it's even rude.
Yeah, it could be rude too.
Pushing up daisies.
Let's check out a dialogue and then I'll give you some more examples.
John's drinking and smoking again.
Yeah, he had a bad week.
If he keeps that up, he'll be pushing up daisies.
How can we get him to stop?
Ah, yeah, drinking and smoking, a bad combination.
If you drink too much and smoke too much, definitely before your time, you will be pushing up daisies.
Take care of yourself.
We like you.
We like you.
Please take care of yourself.
Now, this expression, we don't only use it with people.
We can use it with situations, policies, for example.
Barack Obama's new government policy is pushing up daisies.
It's dead.
The policy died.
Something happened to it.
The plan, the New York – the airport's plan to expand –
Is pushing up daisies.
The plan is pushing up daisies.
The plan has died.
Now, this is a great expression when we use it for things other than people.
So how do you do that?
My friends, go to Google and just type in quotations, pushing up daisies and search under daisies.
And in the news category, you will find so many excellent examples.
Right now, I'm looking at Google News and there's one from Times.
Ah, the Times Live.
I guess that's a news show.
There's one from Premium Guitar talking about guitar playing.
Kotaku, I don't know what that is.
Tom's Guide talking about Facebook.
Newspaper in Dallas talking, the Chicago Tribune.
These newspapers Breitbart News, Huffington Post they're all using pushing up daisies in a very recent story.
It's a great expression.
Learn it, live it, live it, love it.
That's today's expression.
Thank you so much.
Listen to the dialogue two more times.
And together, before you are pushing up daisies, Let's master English.
Oh, John's drinking and smoking again.
Yeah, he had a bad week.
If he keeps that up, he'll be pushing up daisies.
How can we get him to stop?
Oh, John's drinking and smoking again.
Yeah, he had a bad week.
If he keeps that up, He'll be pushing up daisies.
How can we get him to stop?
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