an old wives' tale

a piece of advice or an idea which a lot of people believed in the past but which we now know is wrong It's an old wives' tale that drinking alcohol before you go to bed helps you sleep.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Katsu	kah-tsoo	Japanese
Candice	KAN-dis	English
Liss	-	Norwegian
Ouida	-	Various
Rubinho	-	Portuguese
Janine	zha-NEEN (French), jə-NEEN (English)	French, English, Dutch, German