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Re: Somebody walking on/over my grave

Posted by Lewis on May 06, 2005

In Reply to: Somebody walking on/over my grave posted by Ruks on May 06, 2005

: Would like to know what the phrase "somebody walking on/over my grave" means.

If somebody 'walks over your grave' it means that you have a sudden chill/the hairs on your neck standing up. It presumably comes form the idea that we have an allotted grave-site and that if somebody walks over it, we resonate with that.

L