bum steers
Deliberately misleading tips
Bum steers is the plural of bum steer—a piece of bad advice or misleading information.
The phrase comes from cattle driving, where steering an animal wrong sends it astray.
Someone who gives you a bum steer points you in the wrong direction, whether literally or figuratively: I've gotten some bum steers from that realtor.
- falsehoodDeliberate untrue statement
- mistruthFalse statement
- tall taleWildly exaggerated story
- mythTraditional explanatory tale
- bald-faced lieShameless, obvious untruth
lie · deception · hoax · fabrication · fallacy · red herring · false lead · misinformation · mislead · leading astray · scam · con job · bamboozle · misguide · smoke and mirrors · error · fraud · misdirection
bum steerssage advice
Prudent guidance from experience
wise counsel · straight dope · inside information · right track · hot tips
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