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 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 Labelle, Claude A.

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

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