Sentences with phrase «of old wives tales»

Many of those old wives tales had a great deal of truth in them!

Unfortunately, as such, plenty of old wives tales persist.

There's a lot of old wives tales about how changing your job can blow your chances of a mortgage right out of the water.

Medically, not a lot is different to be honest, but there are a ton of old wives tales about babies born on the blue moon that are pretty interesting to think about regardless.

One of these old wives tales is that baby walkers will cause your child to be bow legged or may stump their growth and development.

The business world is full of old wives tales (for example, «business isn't personal»... really?)

This does nothing to prevent browning and is more of an old wives tale.

So, let's get right to the heart of this old wives tale.

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One of the reasons the provinces are facing such difficulty is that Oliver based his response to the downturn on the economic equivalent of old wives» tales.

They do not in fact bury their heads in the sand as the old wives» tale tells it, but the fact that most of us believe that myth to be true only makes a stronger point: if the move you choose is to burrow in deeper to protect the current nest on which you rest, the odds are high that you're leaving yourself a sitting duck (or ostrich, as it were).

A simple I'm sorry for my part in the sordid tale can wrap this up, otherwise I have more stories... how about the one where the Edina police chaplain throws his wife across the room tearing her shoulder and her 7 year old helps her up and moves the furniture from off of her?

Julie McMahon September 16, 2014 at 8:39 pm -LSB-...] A simple I'm sorry for my part in the sordid tale can wrap this up, otherwise I have more stories... how about the one where the Edina police chaplain throws his wife across the room tearing her shoulder and her 7 year old helps her up and moves the furniture from off of her?

God probably started as an old wives tale, and it got out of hand.

(I might say «Bless you» after someone sneezes, but that is something I learned from my wife... which I heard goes back to some old wive's tale about losing part of your brain when you sneeze...)

Definition of PLATITUDE an idea or expression that has been used by many people Synonyms banality, bromide, chestnut, cliché (also cliche), groaner, homily, platitude, shibboleth, trope, truism Related Words conventional wisdom, party line, routine; inanity; generality, generalization, simplification; adage, proverb, idiom, saw, saying; old wives» tale, stereotype Near Antonyms profundity

Open your mind and open a book, other than some several thousand year - old fairy tale about talking snakes, floods requiring more water than exists in the entire solar system to create, mythological heaven dwellers who stole men's wives, ful of numerology and suppossed «fulfilled prophesy».

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I think the rendering down through the meat is kind of a old wives» tale; it doesn't really happen.

There are a whole lot of old wives» tales out there about neutralizing beans» «musical - fruit» qualities.

This old wives» tale has now been negated by research [v], which has shown that the main factors that contribute to breast ptosis are: age, history of significant (> 50 lb) weight loss, higher body mass index, larger bra cup size, number of pregnancies and smoking history.

I could have just kicked my feet up and ate Ben and Jerry's all day instead of shuttling back and forth to chiropractic appointments, doing all sorts of new - age exercises and following every old wives tale in the book.

With all the mixed information and old wives» tales about the benefits of honey, it is baffling for moms to determine whether or not to introduce their child to honey.

I was even told of an old wives» tale where women were advised to scrub the kitchen floor on their hands and knees!

We know that runs absolutely counter to all wisdom on the benefits of breastfeeding, but those kinds of old wives» tales persist and must be challenged by people in those communities.

One of many old wives» tales is that the appearance of a linea nigra means you're having a boy.

And there's really no threat to the old wives» tale about a cat sucking the life of a newborn — if anything, your cat is more likely to be afraid of the baby, not super aggressive toward it.

So the pump and dump theory is just an old wives tale and a waste of time, energy, and valuable milk.

Another old wives» tale is that your cravings predict the gender of your baby: A mom expecting a boy will crave for sweet and fatty foods, while the mom carrying a girl will want to eat sour foods.

While not much is known about the origins of most old wives» tales (they were an oral tradition, so the first tales were never recorded on paper), they're still fun to try!

Your cravings may predict the gender of your child according to an old wives» tale...

There are several old wives tales, which state that milk functions as a galactagogue, a substance that increases the production of milk.

An old wives» tale is that the length of your pregnancy will correlate to that of your hubby's mom's pregnancy, while the length of your labor and childbirth will correlate with that of your own mom's.

Despite the health benefits of sweet potatoes and the old wives» tale that it could help your milk supply, the truth about your diet while breastfeeding is that anything goes.

By now, you vaguely understand the importance of «beauty sleep,» but it goes far beyond the old wives» tale idiom you heard growing up.

There are old wives» tales about using salt to set the dye and stop dye bleeding of fabrics.

But if the speed of the heart beat is anything to go by — an old wives tale, but it was true with Eliza and according to my friend's midwife mum — then I know what we're having.

The answer to the age - old worry of what foods should you eat (or avoid eating) while you're breastfeeding is full of myths and old wives» tales.

If you're past the 37 - week mark and would like to help encourage baby to make his appearance sooner rather than later, certain activities might help (aside from perhaps the old wives tales of eating spicy foods and pineapple).

What is interesting is that some of these so - called old wives tales actually have been borne out and science backs them up.

Don't allow yourself to be pressured to start solids by the practices of other parents (or even your own past practices with previous children), by the marketing schemes of baby food manufacturers, or by the often inaccurate «old wives tales» on baby nutrition.

There's no real purpose of the linea nigra — old wives» tales have claimed that it's a way to determine the sex of your baby (if it stops at your navel, it's a boy, but if it goes all the way to your ribs, it's a girl), but there's no actual scientific evidence proving this.

Most of what passes for the art of midwifery is dressed up old wives tales and I am sick of it.

Also, not sure how true this old wives tale is, but if you are carrying «low» vs. «high» to determine gender (although this is more obvious toward the middle / end of pregnancy).

Most of these warnings are old wives tales.

It may sound like an old wives tale, but nipple stimulation is the only scientifically proven method of bringing on labor.

There are certain signs which can tell you the gender of your baby according to old wives tales.

There are plenty of old - wives - tales out there that you can find on the internet if you are really desperate to get the ball rolling.

Some of them wild and outlandish, others somewhat believable or totally nonsensical, these old wives tales purported to shed light on a developing baby's future.

Many of these ways are inaccurate old wives tales.

Once you tell people that you're pregnant, you'll probably start hearing a lot of old wives» tales.