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¿Qué significa "push up the daisies" in the blue hikighted part ?
¿Qué significa "push up the daisies" in the blue hikighted part ?

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23 oct 2016
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- Inglés (US)
Pushing up daisies is an idiom that means dead/deceased, as you are buried.
The sentence is referring to the many failed dot-com enterprises, using the idiom "pushing up daises" to say they have "died" or failed in a colourful way.
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- Inglés (US)
Pushing up daisies is an idiom that means dead/deceased, as you are buried.
The sentence is referring to the many failed dot-com enterprises, using the idiom "pushing up daises" to say they have "died" or failed in a colourful way.
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Pushing up daisies is correct that you are buried, since your body is decomposing you are giving nutrients to the daisies helping them grow. This example is used a lot in cowboy movies since it is a very old term

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