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

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 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

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