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
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
I don't want to give you a wrong steer about Twice.
From The Boy Grew Older by Heywood Broun
I've had a good many deals with him and through him, an' he never give me a wrong steer, fur 's I know.
From David Harum A Story of American Life by Edward Noyes Westcott
I wonder if our friend Dud isn't just giving us a wrong steer, or is this what he meant we should find?
From The Ranger Boys and the Border Smugglers by Claude A. Labelle
