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1 old wives' tale
(a superstitious and misleading story.) babja čenča -
2 wife
plural - wives; noun(the woman to whom one is married: Come and meet my wife; He is looking for a wife.) žena- wife-battering* * *plural wives [wáif, wáivz]noun žena, soproga; ženska; stara (kmečka, klepetava) ženska; zoology samicaall the world and his wife — ves modni, elegantni svetto make a good wife — biti dobra žena (to komu) -
3 tale
[teil]1) (a story: He told me the tale of his travels.) zgodba2) (an untrue story; a lie: He told me he had a lot of money, but that was just a tale.) pravljica* * *[téil]nounzgodba, povest, pripoved, pripovedka; bajka, pravljica; poročilo, vest, novica; izmislek, izmišljotina, lažna zgodba, laž; obsolete pogovor, pogovarjanje; opravljanje, obiranje; obsolete naštevanje; obračun; (skupno) številohis tale is out figuratively z njim je konecif all tales be true — če je vse res, kar se pripovedujethat tells its own tale — to že samo vse pove, stvar je jasna, vsak komentar k temu je odvečto tell (to carry, to bear, to bring) tales — brbljati, klepetati, čenčati; opravljati, obrekovati, ovajatito tell tales out of school figuratively pripovedovati zaupane skrivnosti, izklepetati; tožariti, ovajati
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