You Re A Daisy If You Do What It Means
You re a daisy if you do and you re no daisy.
You re a daisy if you do what it means. He s pushing up daisies meant a person was dead. Kind of similar to saying that something is the cream of the crop. You re a daisy if you do you re dead if you do. Another widely used phrase of the time was.
Daisy is a reference to pushing up the daisies or pushing daisies which means you are dead. Daisies are sometimes given to congratulate new mothers. Doc is smart enough to use and expand upon the original phrase and frank would be familiar enough with it to understand the threat. The use of daisy in conversation was not something that doc holliday made up.
You son of a bitch. Simply put daisy means the best or most marvelous. When someone is talking about a daisy what specifically do they mean. I ve got you now.
It was the context of the word usage of the time. Now i want to turn my attention to you re a daisy what does it mean. I think you ve misinterpreted doc s phrase you re a daisy if you do it is meant to be a threat to turn frank mclaury into a daisy. All the talk about what it meant for doc holliday to say you re a daisy if you do and what daisy in that time period meant has little to do with the definition of the word daisy or deusy doozy.
The interpretation that you re a daisy means you re a fine fellow or you re skilled etc makes sense in both of those contexts. She has the cutest hottest and overall best taste in fashion in the world and everything she wears will look absolutely perfect on her because she is perfect. Daisy is the most attractive girl you will ever lay your eyes upon and you would do anything to be with her for a single moment including a 24 hour plane ride daisy will just have this unexplainable quality about her that just draws you towards her and you never ever want to leave. When botanists refer to daisies they mean an entire group of plant species in the plant family called asteraceae which also includes aster flowers ragweed and sunflowers.
Pushing up daisies is something corpses do by fertilizing them. No daisy at all are two doc holliday lines that people love to quote from the 1993 film tombstone. They also mean chastity and transformation because of the roman myth of vertumnus and belides. Freya is the goddess of love beauty and fertility and as such the daisy came by symbolize childbirth motherhood and new beginnings.
Victorians and the daisy phrase.