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[conuly]

Poll #23749

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 132

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Who steps or walks over/on your grave?

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"Somebody"
94 (71.2%)

A goose
28 (21.2%)

A ghost
4 (3.0%)

A rabbit
0 (0.0%)

A possum
0 (0.0%)

Other
0 (0.0%)

I am not familiar with this expression in any incarnation
6 (4.5%)

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Comments

[alexseanchai]

Alternates to "somebody" are "a ghost" and "I", the latter usually with "my own grave" instead of "my grave".

[nicki]

I chose "somebody", but I've heard both "somebody" and "a goose" and if I used the phrase, either would be equally likely. (listen, I've lived a lot of places, my vernacular is, um, heavily multi-regional.)

[dine]

interesting item on Indian Clubs, I own three - wood with red & black stripes around the neck. they came from the storage room at the farm, so quite possibly dating from the 30s or earlier. I've no idea why three, unless there had initially been four and one disappeared?

[brokenallbroken]

I feel like kettlebells are swinging clubs' grandchildren.

[konsectatrix]

I've heard "ghost" and "somebody."

[archangelbeth]

I picked the goose, but also "somebody."

[pauamma]

What does that idiom mean?

[conuly]

You shivered suddenly, or you wish to indicate that something you just heard/saw was creepy or disturbing in some way.

[pauamma]

Thanks.

[darkoshi]

Somebody or someone. Never heard the others used, except maybe ghost, but I'm not even sure about that one.

[hilarita]

Having read the answers, obviously, an angry goose runs over your grave, honking.

[fred_mouse]

I picked goose, because it is the one I learned first, but I've heard somebody about as much, and I think it is the more common in recent memory. Mind you, I think the phrase has fallen out of use in general around here.

[maju]

I'm not sure that I've ever heard anybody actually say this, but I've read "a ghost walked over his grave" or similar in more than one book.

[dancing_crow]

A goose, because then you get goose-bumps.

[saraqael]

I selected 'somebody' but I've also heard 'cat' many times.

[conuly]

Now, that's a new one. Where've you heard it?

[saraqael]

I heard 'cat walked over my grave' growing up in the Midwest. It's even used in the movie Cat People!
From IMDB:
Oliver 'Ollie' Reed : You cold?
Alice Moore : A cat just walked over my grave.

Maybe it's a Midwest thing?