Not like many idiomatic words and metaphors, “Pusing Up Daisies” is an expression with a concrete, recognized beginning.
It used to be coined via Wilfred Owen in between 1917 and 1918, in his poem about The Nice Warfare, titled A Terre (French for “to the earth” or “into the bottom”). The poem targets to invoke the philosophy of squaddies, which is targeted round death.
The poem is going, as follows:
“’Pushing up daisies,’ is their creed, you realize.”
Following the e-newsletter of the poem in 1918, the metaphor used to be followed via most people, rather temporarily, spreading throughout the UK, Nice Britain, to even the US.
Wilfred Owen