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Daisy Roots
Daisy Roots is Cockney rhyming slang and means 'boots' (footwear).
The association is one of rhyme and also with the popular belief that daisies and their roots are hard to eradicate, the simile being to boots which are hard to take off. It is referred to in the traditional song "My Old Man's a Dustman" recorded by Lonnie Donegan during the 1950's: "he's got such a job to pull them off that 'e calls them daisy roots"
- Usage is commonly of the form "daisies" rather than the phrase in full.
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