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 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

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 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)

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

From The Boy Grew Older by Broun, Heywood