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
Purnima	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Tamil, Kannada
Loredana	-	Italian, Romanian
Fruzsina	FROOZH-ee-naw	Hungarian
Tushar	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati
Pavle	-	Serbian, Macedonian, Croatian, Georgian
Isis	IE-sis (English)	Egyptian Mythology (Hellenized)