An "old wives' tale" is a colloquial expression referring to spurious or superstitious claims. They can be said sometimes to be a type of urban legend...

The Old Wives' Tale is a novel by Arnold Bennett, first published in 1908. It deals with the lives of two very different sisters, Constance and Sophia...

Look up old wives' tale in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Old wives' tales may refer to: Old wives' tales, sayings of popular wisdom (usually incorrect)...

The Old Wives' Tale is a play by George Peele first printed in England in 1595. The play has been identified as the first English work to satirize the...

The Old Wives' Tale is a 1921 British drama film directed by Denison Clift and starring Fay Compton, Florence Turner and Henry Victor. It is based on...

"The Winter's Tale" would immediately indicate to contemporary audiences that the work would present an "idle tale", an old wives' tale not intended to...

Milestones (1916) Milestones (1920) The Great Adventure (1921) The Old Wives' Tale (1921) The Card (1922) His Double Life (1933) Holy Matrimony (1943)...

"Bubbe meise", meaning "old wives' tale". The story, derived from the Anglo-Norman romance of Bevis of Hampton, tells the tale of Bovo and Druzane. Despite...

finest of his novels, including Anna of the Five Towns (1902), The Old Wives' Tale (1908), Clayhanger (1910) and Riceyman Steps (1923), are now widely...

attributed to him, but his reputation rests mainly on Edward I, The Old Wives' Tale, The Battle of Alcazar, The Arraignment of Paris, and David and Bethsabe...

"just desserts" for "just deserts" "old-timers' disease" for "Alzheimer's disease" "old wise tale" for "old wives' tale" "on the spurt of the moment" for...

this album with yet another EP, this one titled Old Wives Tales. While retaining the Black Forest fairy-tale theme, he dropped the darker, gothic strains...

Mahmonir Soroushazar, an interior designer, divorced when she was ten years old. Her mother was born in Spain to an Iranian father and a Spanish mother....

Old Wives Tales (also Old Wives' Tales) was a feminist bookstore in the Mission Dolores neighborhood of San Francisco. It was founded on October 31, 1976...

בובמייסס) Old wives' tale, cock and bull story (often attributed by erroneous folk etymology to combination of bubbe, "grandmother", and meisse, "tale", but...

Old Wives' Tales is an album by the American musician Exene Cervenka, released in 1989. Cervenka told the Los Angeles Times that she considered the album...

"there was a belief in the pagan religion, which we now reckon an old wives' tale, that people could be reincarnated," and that the deceased valkyrie...

2016-05-23. "Is the old adage "Red sky at night, sailor's delight. Red sky in morning, sailor's warning" true, or is it just an old wives' tale?". Library of...

of the old twangy instruments in there". One couplet in the song is adapted from a poem by George Peele, part of his play The Old Wives' Tale (printed...

originally published in 2013, was inspired in part by Arnold Bennett's The Old Wives' Tale. In 2016, Sanghera was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature...

ophthalmology at the University of Oxford, this is nothing more than an old wives' tale: the only damage that can be caused by squinting for long periods is...

actually false. They generally arise from conventional wisdom (such as old wives' tales), stereotypes, superstitions, fallacies, a misunderstanding of science...

syndrome) can also generate a loud snapping or popping sound. The common old wives' tale that cracking one's knuckles causes arthritis is without scientific...

that Bennett had previously explored with other characters in The Old Wives' Tale). The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English says...

Old Wives Tales is an EP by Joy Electric. Like most of Joy Electric's EPs, Old Wives Tales sports a much more simplistic and minimal style then on the...

context: Then he told himself that all this morality business was only an old wives' tale. He, Charles, wasn't tied up by these out-of-date considerations! What...

Pasión de Gavilanes, in which he played the role of Juan Reyes, Franco's older brother (Pablo Montero) and Oscar (Jorge Salinas). In 2009, he starred in...

"there was a belief in the pagan religion, which we now reckon [is] an old wives' tale, that people could be reincarnated" and that "Helgi and Sigrun were...

just as "Break a leg!" is considered good luck. Also described as an old wives' tale, the superstition may date back to medieval times. Some sources ascribe...

stated, in "later years", he had become convinced this was simply an old wives' tale and he had ceased to gouge out the eyes of his victims. Chikatilo also...