wrong steer
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If someone gives her a wrong steer, she crosses the tipster's name off her list.
From Time Magazine Archive
I figured he'd make direct for Dawson, but he's either changed his mind or got a wrong steer.
From The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance by Robert W. (Robert William) Service
Mother used to love to buy things from Eli, to hear him bargain and squirm, trying his best to give you a wrong steer, without lying right out.
From Plain Mary Smith A Romance of Red Saunders by Henry Wallace Phillips
Mr. Emory certainly gave us a wrong steer.
From Voice from the Cave by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt
I don't want to give you a wrong steer about Twice.
From The Boy Grew Older by Heywood Broun
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