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 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
Mr. Emory certainly gave us a wrong steer.
From Voice from the Cave by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt
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
