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
Jasminka	-	Croatian
Francine	frawn-SEEN (French), fran-SEEN (English)	French, English
Otto	AW-to (German), AH-to (English), OT-to (Finnish)	German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, Ancient Germanic
Dermid	-	Scottish
Haley	['heili]
Ahlberg	['ɔ:lbɜ:g]