old wives' tale in English
noun
1
a superstition or traditional belief that is regarded as unscientific or incorrect.
I fear you are repeating what is now widely regarded as an old wives' tale !
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1. I’m referring to the old wives’ tale of the Bottle fed kitten yielding to aggressive, dominant-cat adulthood
2. Putting Conkers around the house to deter spiders is an old wives’ tale and there’s no evidence to suggest it really works
3. A: The term is actually a "Cowlick" (not colic or collick) and comes from the old wives' tale that a child's hair grew in an odd direction because his or her head was licked by a cow as a baby