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Definition of bum steer in English: bum steernoun North American informal A piece of false information or unhelpful guidance. 〈北美，非正式〉误导（信息） large numbers of kids are getting a bum steer in life Example sentencesExamples - But rather than meaning Brown had an entirely bum steer here, the more likely explanation is that there was a party within the SDMI that wanted to run up the white flag on Friday, but that its effort failed.
- It might be a bum steer, and if it is we just search harder.
- I don't know, I sometimes think now that that was kind of a bum steer, except that it was always a problem or a fork in the road in my life.
- Meanwhile I knew one of you would give me a bum steer with those translations.
- The inspector was beginning to think he had received a bum steer.
- Outside board members gave her a bum steer as she analyzed an Informix Corp.
- It could of course be the accents - but it could also be that someone's given us a bum steer somewhere down the line.
- I hope the author of this piece has gotten a bum steer and his source was wrong.
- Most important, though, there's not a bum steer in the lot.
- He says loggers have been given a bum steer by officialdom.
- I've never been sure whether the original lead about the identity of the documents peddler was just a bum steer or a fragment of the real story which we had somehow misinterpreted.
- Live albums can be a bum steer at the best of times, but a double-CD set celebrating the mighty Ozzy Osbourne-curated festival that trawls round the States each year?
- Michael admits that maybe he's been given a bum steer by the banks on that one.
- Rather than giving us a clear steer, we have been given a bum steer on this matter.
- I mean somehow it seems like an awful bum steer to have gotten for a while, but there was definitely something in the air that meant it was interesting to investigate all those kinds of things.
- Basically, I think the whole metaphor - and it is a metaphor - of ‘text’ and ‘writing’ as synonyms for communication, as they have been deployed in the so called New Humanities, was a bum steer.
- The more I see it, the more I know that it is mostly a bum steer.
- In this case, I think he may have been given a bum steer by Google, since his report attributes that information directly to a ‘company spokeswoman’.
- Anyway, complaining that dance magazines are rubbishing Fischerspooner is on a par with moaning that Kerrang have given Atomic Kitten a bum steer, isn't it?
- And just like cattle, it seems some have been neutered along the way and have found themselves jobs as political journalists whose purpose is to give us our daily bum steer.
Synonyms disinformation, false information, misleading information, deception
Origin1920s: from bum1 + steer1 in the sense 'advice, guidance'. Definition of bum steer in US English: bum steernoun North American informal A piece of false information or guidance. 〈北美，非正式〉误导（信息） apparently, those who recommended your good service gave us a bum steer Example sentencesExamples - In this case, I think he may have been given a bum steer by Google, since his report attributes that information directly to a ‘company spokeswoman’.
- I mean somehow it seems like an awful bum steer to have gotten for a while, but there was definitely something in the air that meant it was interesting to investigate all those kinds of things.
- Michael admits that maybe he's been given a bum steer by the banks on that one.
- I've never been sure whether the original lead about the identity of the documents peddler was just a bum steer or a fragment of the real story which we had somehow misinterpreted.
- It might be a bum steer, and if it is we just search harder.
- Meanwhile I knew one of you would give me a bum steer with those translations.
- Most important, though, there's not a bum steer in the lot.
- I hope the author of this piece has gotten a bum steer and his source was wrong.
- Rather than giving us a clear steer, we have been given a bum steer on this matter.
- Anyway, complaining that dance magazines are rubbishing Fischerspooner is on a par with moaning that Kerrang have given Atomic Kitten a bum steer, isn't it?
- He says loggers have been given a bum steer by officialdom.
- Live albums can be a bum steer at the best of times, but a double-CD set celebrating the mighty Ozzy Osbourne-curated festival that trawls round the States each year?
- Outside board members gave her a bum steer as she analyzed an Informix Corp.
- The more I see it, the more I know that it is mostly a bum steer.
- It could of course be the accents - but it could also be that someone's given us a bum steer somewhere down the line.
- Basically, I think the whole metaphor - and it is a metaphor - of ‘text’ and ‘writing’ as synonyms for communication, as they have been deployed in the so called New Humanities, was a bum steer.
- And just like cattle, it seems some have been neutered along the way and have found themselves jobs as political journalists whose purpose is to give us our daily bum steer.
- But rather than meaning Brown had an entirely bum steer here, the more likely explanation is that there was a party within the SDMI that wanted to run up the white flag on Friday, but that its effort failed.
- The inspector was beginning to think he had received a bum steer.
- I don't know, I sometimes think now that that was kind of a bum steer, except that it was always a problem or a fork in the road in my life.
Synonyms disinformation, false information, misleading information, deception
Origin1920s: from bum + steer in the sense ‘advice, guidance’. |