单词 | old wives' tale |
例句 | I knew this to be an old wives' tale, a myth. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z It is easy to see how the expression "old wives' tale" could come to mean a superstitious, irrational and untrue statement, which is to be rejected out of hand. Old wives' tales 2010-05-14T23:00:00Z An old wives' tale is the same thing as a winter's tale. Old wives' tales 2010-05-14T23:00:00Z The play is an old wives' tale about an old wife, who endures long separation from her husband and the death of her son, and is reunited with her husband at the end. Old wives' tales 2010-05-14T23:00:00Z It is where we get the notion of the old wives' tale. How Cinderella lost its original feminist edge in the hands of men 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z Drawing from the works of Nicholas Culpeper and Albertus Magnus, with a good dose of old wives' tale, there were more editions of this work published in the 18th century than any other medical text. Formerly banned sex manual to go under the hammer in Edinburgh 2013-01-03T18:02:57Z Even so, the roots of the salon fairy tale in the old wives' tale are fairly easy to trace. Old wives' tales 2010-05-14T23:00:00Z Because it is an old wives' tale, the play can roam from Bohemia to Sicily and back again, and encompass 16 years. Old wives' tales 2010-05-14T23:00:00Z No one's spitting in your dish; that's an old wives' tale. How do you send back a bad meal? 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z Then I read a trick that sounded like it had to be an old wives' tale: Stick a piece of bread in your mouth. This cheesy, no-tear French onion soup is ready in under 30 minutes 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z Its government said that there were "no border violations by Mi-8 and Mi-24 helicopters", and described the accusation as an "old wives' tale". Why are tensions mounting on the Belarus-Poland border? 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z He said Pimlico appears different "because the track is so narrow. It's just an old wives' tale." Nyquist seen as a presumed victor at Preakness on Saturday 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z Honey's reputation was relegated to that of an old wives' tale in the twentieth century after the discovery of penicillin heralded the widespread use of antibiotic drugs to combat infections. When will we take honey seriously? 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z Go to a younger man than me, and one who knows less of the world, with an old wives' tale like that. Submarine U93 2012-04-07T02:00:34.693Z That song by banjo man Dan Lindner probably sounds like an outlandish myth, an old wives' tale passed around a small town. Hole in the head 2011-03-06T18:57:55Z Multitudes flocked to hear this old wives' tale, as though it had been solemn history. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second No," said the second beggar smiling, "religion is an old wives' tale. The Unknown Quantity A Book of Romance and Some Half-Told Tales There just isn't any such Psi power as hallucination, and every one of you knows it—it's an old wives' tale. Modus Vivendi Harry thought of saying that he preferred an old wives' tale any day to an old maid's fact, but he only smiled on. The Limit I am weary enough of all this old wives' tale! Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 That point is the hell which once he laughed at as an old wives' tale. The Growth of English Drama I am hardly idiot enough to be taken in by that sort of old wives' tale. The Strange Case of Cavendish There isn't such a thing as HC—hallucination is an old wives' tale. Modus Vivendi He was here at the time, and yet why did he suggest that old wives' tale as a possible solution of the disappearance? The Riddle of the Frozen Flame Winthorpe—that's his name—had for years been a freethinker, far too intellectual and enlightened, and that sort of thing, you know, to believe any such old wives' tale as the Christian Religion. My Friend Prospero And it is the same with many another god at whom once the ages trembled and the twentieth century treats as an old wives' tale. Tales of Wonder And then Cotton Mather would go home to his secret chamber, and write in his diary that God and religion were perhaps, after all, but an old wives' tale. The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 From Discovery of America October 12, 1492 to Battle of Lexington April 19, 1775 As soon as he could find the proper time to investigate this ridiculous old wives' tale, Conabar intended to go and find her. Si'Wren of the Patriarchs Upon my word, I don't—never heard of it—" "Just think—an old wives' tale—something that has to do with a needle. The Hollow Needle; Further adventures of Arsene Lupin |
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