Sentences with phrase «wives tale told»

Every dog owner has heard them at one time or another — that old wives tale told to us by a well - meaning...

Every dog owner has heard them at one time or another — that old wives tale told to us by a well - meaning friend.

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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).

The one time my former wife I and did get into a disagreement about was when I told her I had no consideration toward telling out kids about Santa Claus as being nothing more than a old, worn out tale.

Mark and Tim's story was told in the video, «A Tale of Two Dads» https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh1B9Ni9iEk Beverly Prince - Sayward In addition to being a freelance writer, Beverly is a homeschooling mother to her three children - twins Hailey and Quentin, and youngest son Jared; the non-legally married wife to her partner Kathleen who works for IBM as well as the National Guard; and author of the blog Raising a Child with Auditory Processing Disorder.

I know science tells a different story, but with my babies the old wives» tale is true.

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

Whenever you do tell everyone, brace yourself because the suggestions and old wives»... MORE tales are coming your way.

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

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

It can be hard to tell what's really a safety concern and what's an old wives» tale when you're pregnant and so many well intended people will hurry to dispense even more confusing information that could just be a myth and not information at all.

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It's sort of an old wives» tale that you'll gain 30 or 40 pounds as you continue through middle age — it can easily happen, but it's very easy to offset the change in metabolic rate,» she tells WebMD.

So now that you are involved (I mean your friend is involved) with «Mr. I wan na have my cake and eat it to», what are the tell tale signs that he is never going to leave his wife.

Taking the producer's seat here, Apatow's conservative touch might still be ever - present but it's Silicon Valley star Kumail Nanjiani's story to tell and the film feels authentically his, recounting the unlikely tale of how he met his wife.

told 5 kids bout the romanian prince Vlad and with the death of his wife started a tale of vampires and a new beginning

In a remake of one of his earlier films, Hitchcock tells the tale of Dr. Ben McKenna (James Stewart), his wife, Jo (Doris Day), and their son, Hank (Christopher Olsen), who become embroiled in international intrigue when a stranger they meet on vacation in Marrakech is attacked by an assassin and whispers into Ben's ear a horrible secret: someone's life is in danger.

This Korean release tells a familiar tale of a federal agent whose wife was brutally murdered by a serial killer, so he goes out on a quest for revenge.

The movie tells three intersecting tales: the nervous lovebirds (Tim Roth and Amanda Plummer) knocking off a greasy spoon; the bumbling hit men (Samuel Jackson and John Travolta) analyzing the downside of hitting on the boss» wife; and the palooka (Bruce Willis) on the run after not taking a dive.

Frequently told from the perspective of Reggie's long - suffering wife Frances, this well - trodden tale of The Brothers Kray is held together by a narration that, to me, aimed for downplayed authenticity but landed somewhere flat.

Goodbye Christopher Robin will tell the personal tale of beloved children's author A.A. Milne (Gleeson) and wife Daphne (Robbie).

Warner Bros. has released a new image from the upcoming horror spin - off sequel Annabelle 2, which features the creepy doll looking all creepy... Annabelle 2 tells the tale of a dollmaker and his wife who, several years after the tragic death of their little girl, welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage -LSB-...]

Briefly put, Lost Highway tells the odd tale of Fred Madison (Pullman), a saxophonist in the sleazy night - time world of Lynch's eerie, twisted California, who mysteriously finds himself on death row for the murder of his wife Renee (Patricia Arquette) despite having no knowledge of her death.

The book tells the true life tale of Benjamin, who decided to put his life savings into buying a zoo, while at the same time learning his wife has terminal brain cancer.

He loses his son's respect and shreds of his sanity as guilt eats away at him à la Poe's «The Tell - Tale Heart» while he experiences otherworldly visions involving his decomposing wife and lots and lots of rats.

She's told the story of Moby Dick from the woman's point of view (Ahab's Wife); portrayed race relations in the Civil Rights Era South (Four Spirits); and channeled a queen's point - of - view to tell Marie Antoinette's tragic tale (Abundance).

Whilst the storyline of one man, two wives has been told many times, (for example Anita Shreve's relatively recent, The Pilot's Wife) this tale brings a new angle to the telling.

Cate Holahan's latest thriller, Lies She Told, masterfully weaves together the parallel tales of two troubled young wives, sweeping readers along as each story echoes and advances the narrative.

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These graphics are used to tell a simple tale of a cop whose wife leaves him due to his commitment to the job.

We find reincarnations of the bawdy Wyf of Bathe, a narrative cycle devoted to the Merchant's Tale (in which the lustful Januarie is struck blind and cuckolded by his young wife May), and allusions to the Pardoner's Tale — a fable about seeking to «kill Death», told by a sly and unctuous cleric.

Shakespeare's Macbeth is probably best known for lamenting his wife's death: «Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.»

She encouraged me to tell my tale of woe about the years of agony we experienced because I got too big for my britches and against my wife's better judgment I had tried to do the same thing myself.