'Chicken Soup for the Soul' を読んでいます。
An early scene in the movie shows Mr. Keating taking the boys down to the school lobby where a trophy case displays photos of erlier graduating classes. "Look at these pictures, boys," Keating tells the students. "The young man you behold had the same fire in their eyes that you do. They planned to take the world by storm and make something magnificient of their lives. That was seventy years ago. Now they are all pushing up daisies. How many of them really lived out their dreams?
"pushing up daisies" は慣用句のようですね。 辞書を見ます。
・Wiktionary: (idiomatic) To be dead.
・Collins Dictionary: slang, to be dead and buried
・Urban Dictionary: A phrase used to describe someone dead. You will be in the ground dead so therefore daisies will grow on you, and you will be "pushing up daisies"
米国では土葬なのでデイジーが生えてくるのですかね？
An early scene in the movie shows Mr. Keating taking the boys down to the school lobby where a trophy case displays photos of erlier graduating classes. "Look at these pictures, boys," Keating tells the students. "The young man you behold had the same fire in their eyes that you do. They planned to take the world by storm and make something magnificient of their lives. That was seventy years ago. Now they are all pushing up daisies. How many of them really lived out their dreams?
"pushing up daisies" は慣用句のようですね。 辞書を見ます。
・Wiktionary: (idiomatic) To be dead.
・Collins Dictionary: slang, to be dead and buried
・Urban Dictionary: A phrase used to describe someone dead. You will be in the ground dead so therefore daisies will grow on you, and you will be "pushing up daisies"
米国では土葬なのでデイジーが生えてくるのですかね？
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