bum steer
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bum steer (plural bum steers)
- (idiomatic) Bad advice or information, regardless of intention.
- 1977, Kingsley Amis, Harold's years: impressions from the New Statesman and the Spectator:
- He never, so far as I knew, gave me a bum steer.
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- Mainly used after the verbs to give or to receive.