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 Phillips, Henry Wallace

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 Labelle, Claude A.

I know, girl, just looks like every steer I gave myself was the wrong steer till it was too late to get in right again.

From Gaslight Sonatas by Hurst, Fannie

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)