DAISY


Meaning of DAISY in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

as fresh as a daisy (= not tired and ready to do things )

Despite his busy day he arrived looking as fresh as a daisy .

daisy chain

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

fresh

Victorious crews normally look as fresh as daisies , while the losers collapse.

■ NOUN

chain

He got out the cheating stick and clipped the peg, swarming up in a daisy chain of quick-draws.

We were all linked in a vast and rhythmic coincidence, a daisy chain of rumor, suspicion and secret wish.

Have you ever made a daisy chain ?

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

be pushing up (the) daisies

It's lucky I was sent here, to Hepzibah, or I'd be pushing up daisies.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But the daisies will be happy to have a good place to grow, in such a safe sunny corner.

I had been thrown off the cricket team at school for making daisy chains on the boundary.

It had a wicker, flower-girl basket of pinks and daisies in its mouth.

To create the second scene the sun and row of daisies are knitted as if reflected in water.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.