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

From The Boy Grew Older by Broun, Heywood

I guess some one's been givin' you the wrong steer," says I. "I ain't started any kindergarten class yet.

From Side-stepping with Shorty by Ford, Sewell

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.