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Difference between Come up daisies and Push up daisies

come up daisies —(also: come up roses) turn out extremely well, especially when things seemed to be going badly at first:

  • Once you’ve implemented an active job search, everything will come up daisies.

push up daisies —(sl.) be dead and buried:

  • We could argue about the details of science and politics till we pushed up daisies—and yet we would not come any closer to conciliation.