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 though, that is a wrong steer, for Altman has come out flat for his old team and denies any intention of jumping his contract.”

From Baseball Joe Around the World Pitching on a Grand Tour by Chadwick, Lester

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

From The Boy Grew Older by Broun, Heywood

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

Mr. Emory certainly gave us a wrong steer.

From Voice from the Cave by Wirt, Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine)