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You Re a Daisy if You Do

You Re a Daisy if You Do

"You're a daisy if you do" and "You're no daisy. No daisy at all." are two Md Holliday lines that people dearest to quote from the 1993 film, Tombstone. It's lines like this that make Tombstone then memorable. Hither's a question for yous though. Did you know that the real Doc Holliday used this phrase?

Md Holliday has always been portrayed with plenty of charisma in the movies. Tombstone certainly would be the prime example. Not only does Doc Holliday get to be a chip wicked while also continuing firmly loyal to Wyatt Earp, just he also uses all kinds of weird and wonderful phrases in his language. I've already written about the meaning and background to "I'g your blueberry". Now, I desire to turn my attending to "Y'all're a daisy."

What does "Yous're a daisy if you practise!" or "Y'all're no daisy. No daisy at all." mean?

Just put, "daisy" means the all-time or almost marvelous. Kind of similar to saying that something is the cream of the crop.

Victorians and the "daisy" phrase

The use of daisy in conversation was not something that Dr. Holliday made up. Information technology was a fairly fashionable term in the late 1870s. If you look through old newspapers from the fourth dimension period, there are plenty of references to people being daisies because they were doing something wonderful for their town. The Victorians had an obsession with flower language. Every flower was symbolic. Daisies represented purity and innocence. If y'all fancied someone and that interest was reciprocated with a bouquet of daisies, it meant that the gentleman thought you were wonderful. It would as well imply they were interested in courting you and pursuing a human relationship.

Did Physician really say "You're a daisy?"

Yes, according to eyewitnesses of the gunfight and as well to paper accounts, he did. During the gunfight Frank McLaury said "I've got you now, you lot son of a bowwow." at which Doctor Holliday replied, "Blaze away, you lot're a daisy if you accept."

newspaper clipping
Arizona Weekly Citizen's article about the gunfight. Oct 30, 1881.

Daisy Cocktails

Around 1876, a cocktail called the Gin Daisy was invented. In 1887, the cocktail was included in The Bartender'southward Guide by Jerry Thomas. Variations using whiskey and rum became popular right through the 1880s. These recipes included ingredients that have slipped from popularity now. I've included a couple in case you'd like to give them a go. I'thou certain information technology will add to your pleasance while watching Tombstone!

Whiskey Daisy (from The Bartender's Guide 1887)

Ingredients

  • 3 dashes glue syrup
  • 2 dashes Orgeat syrup
  • The juice of half a small lemon
  • 1 wine-drinking glass of Bourbon, or rye whiskey

Directions

  1. Make full glass one-third full of shaved ice.
  2. Milkshake well, strain into a large cocktail drinking glass, and fill up with Seltzer or Apollinaris water.

Gin Daisy

Ingredients

  • 2oz gin
  • 1oz fresh lemon juice
  • 1oz club soda
  • 3/4 oz grenadine
  • Water ice

Directions

  1. Mix ingredients together in a cocktail shaker.
  2. Pour and potable.

Elena Sandidge is a Scottish novelist with a passion for the history of the Old West and the life of the legendary gunfighting dentist, Doc Holliday. "A Gentleman in Hell" chronicles the adventures of Doc Holliday as he travels from Dodge City, Kansas to Tombstone, Arizona and on to his last dwelling in the mountains of Colorado

You Re a Daisy if You Do

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