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
Iuri	-	Georgian
Ognen	-	Macedonian
Leena	LE:-nah (Finnish)	Finnish, Estonian
Kishan	-	Indian, Hindi, Gujarati
Valter	-	Portuguese, Italian, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Slovene, Croatian, Estonian
Constantine	KAHN-stən-teen (English)	History