I used to say " The ghost is clear!" Instead of "The coast is clear"
A childhood belief about speaking

others believed things like this
- I thought that kids' pee was yellow and adults' pee was clear.— Aretia
- i used to think stigmata meant the really clear, white sunbeams that you could see reaching down to the earth.— lora
- I loved watching the cartoon Casper the Friendly Ghost and wondered why the Holy Ghost never got his own show.— Robert
- I thought the Holy Ghost was the ghost of the Virgin Mary.— Texas granny
- If I pretend to sleep the ghost won't eat me
Anon - I used to think that when I saw someone on TV whom I knew to be dead , it meant that it was his or her ghost.— Sophie