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old wives' tale
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It's not true that if trees have a lot of fruit in the autumn it will be a cold winter - that's just an old wives' tale.
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And so the old wives' tale continues.
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I think it's an old wives' tale that make-up ruins the skin.
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Some dismiss these as myth in the sense of old wives' tales.
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That's only an old wives' tale.
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The old wives' tales that have answered the pleas of fathers for centuries are mostly ineffective.
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Whatever doctors, old wives' tales, and the Roman Catholic Church may say, human ovulation is invisible and unpredictable.