bum steer
Example Sentences
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But sometimes you can’t, like when you ask a chatbot a factual question and get a bum steer.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026
Greenhorns Stan and Ollie go to Brushwood Gulch with a gold-mine deed and get a bum steer.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2020
It was a bum steer: we didn’t make a dent in it and nearly fainted when we got a bill for $58.
From New York Times • Apr. 7, 2012
A few years later, I was given another bum steer, this time by lovelorn indie music.
From The Guardian • Aug. 12, 2011
And all that sympathetic talk, that bum steer, just to cheat the big loser out of one measly pot!
From Fore! by Loan, Charles Emmett Van
