bum steer
Example Sentences
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But sometimes you can’t, like when you ask a chatbot a factual question and get a bum steer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 25, 2026
Greenhorns Stan and Ollie go to Brushwood Gulch with a gold-mine deed and get a bum steer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2020
It was a bum steer: we didn’t make a dent in it and nearly fainted when we got a bill for $58.
From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2012
Trying to catch out the Knowledge with a bum steer, eh Sean?
From The Guardian ● Jul. 5, 2011
I got a hunch mebbe it's a bum steer, but you can't be sure till you try it.
From The Big-Town Round-Up by William MacLeod Raine
