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Adonis1013 Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary

Need your help. Thanks.

Dear all,

Could you help me check the following two questions? The first one is about a sentence. The other one is about the definition of Cold Wives Tales. Thank you very much.


  1. 1. A: Do you have any symptoms of illness?
B: I have a fever and a sore throat.



2. Cold Wives Tales.

Here are some unusual remedies for cold.

Put fish skin on your feet.

I do not know what the "Cold Wives Tales" means? Could you explain it to me? Thanks again.
  

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1. A: Do you have any symptom s? B: I have a fever and a sore throat.

  • 1.
  • A: Do you have any symptom s?
  • B: I have a fever and a sore throat.
  • 2.
  • Cold Wives Tales Here is an unusual remedy for a cold: put fish skin on your feet.
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A: Do you have any symptoms?

B: I have a fever and a sore throat.

2. Cold Wives Tales

Here is an unusual remedy for a cold: put fish skin on your feet.

I do not know what the "Cold Wives Tales" means. The fixed phrase is 'old wives' tales', which refers to folk tales, usually disproven ones. Here, 'cold wives' tales' is a pun on th

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