How to use Old-wives-tale in a sentence
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That old expression "an apple a day keeps the doctor away" isn't just an old wives tale.
Any pregnancy old wives tale for bringing on labor that sounds even slightly dangerous should not be attempted by women unless they are under the care of a doctor.
The second experiment was to see whether putting banana skins under cabbage plants made them grow faster as the old wives tale suggests.
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