Pushing up daisies, coffin fodder

[Ju]

1. Coffin fodder

2. Pushing up daisies

What does it mean of the above phrases?

Ju

[J&K Tutoring]

Pushing Up the Daisies means you're dead. You're in the ground under the growing flowers.

Fodder is some bulk material used for fill. Fodder is an archaic term for cattle feed and Cannon Fodder is generally understood to mean expendable army men- just something to blindly shoot at the enemy in large volume. Thus, Coffin Fodder is something used to fill a coffin = your dead body.

[Rover_KE]

1. Coffin fodder

2. Pushing up daisies

What does it mean of the above phrases?

What do the above phrases mean?

Ju

As you will see from J&K Tutoring's reply, both phrases are flippant and disrespectful references to the dead.

Be careful how you use them to avoid giving offence.

Rover

[BobK]

Is 'coffin fodder' known/used in the UK? I've heard of 'cannon fodder' (= soldiers sent to a certain death), but....

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[5jj]

Is 'coffin fodder' known/used in the UK? I've heard of 'cannon fodder' (= soldiers sent to a certain death), but....

It's the same for me. 5 (BrE speaker)