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've had a good many deals with him and through him, an' he never give me a wrong steer, fur 's I know.

From David Harum A Story of American Life by Westcott, Edward Noyes

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

From The Boy Grew Older by Broun, Heywood

Mr. Emory certainly gave us a wrong steer.

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

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