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daisy
(redirected from as fresh as a daisy)

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*fresh as a daisy
Cliché very fresh; [of a person] always alert and ready to go. (*Also: as ~.) How can you be fresh as a daisy so early in the morning? I always feel fresh as a daisy after a shower.
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pushing up (the) daisies

Fig. dead and buried. (Usually in the future tense.) I'll be pushing up daisies before this problem is solved. If you talk to me like that again, you'll be pushing up the daisies.
See also: pushing, up

be as fresh as a daisy
to be full of energy and enthusiasm It's been a long drive but give me a cup of tea and I'll soon feel fresh as a daisy.
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be pushing up (the) daisies  (humorous)

to be dead It won't affect me anyway. I'll be pushing up the daisies long before it happens.
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If nothing else, this exhibition demonstrates the utility of intellectual fashion as a ready foil--as an academic straight man against which Nauman's drastic humanism, redolent as it is with Beckett, Eliot, and Artaud, seems as fresh as a daisy and perfectly au courant, perpetually seeking its end in its beginning--and continuing to begin, again and again.
 
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