wrong steer

Example Sentences

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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 don't want to give you a wrong steer about Twice.

From The Boy Grew Older by Broun, Heywood

I may have a wrong steer, Mr. Neilson," he said, "but a man I met down on the river-trail, out of Snowy Gulch, advised me to come here.

From The Sky Line of Spruce by Marshall, Edison

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 Service, Robert W. (Robert William)

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 Phillips, Henry Wallace