Meanings
nounbum steer (plural bum steers)
plural bum steers
- idiomaticBad advice or information, regardless of intention.
He never, so far as I knew, gave me a bum steer.
1977, Kingsley Amis, Harold's years: impressions from the New Statesman and the Spectator
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