The phrase "a steady pair of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing something that is consistent or reliable, often in relation to physical items or attributes.
Example: "She always wore a steady pair of shoes that provided excellent support during her long walks."
Alternatives: "a reliable set of" or "a consistent pair of".
She is seen as a steady pair of hands when trouble strikes and a defender of public-service values.
I was soon identified as a steady pair of hands by Gordon Brown and was asked to join his team at the Treasury as an adviser.
Armchair astronomers were able to see the object with little more than binoculars at the ready and a steady pair of hands.
In the past, after upheavals at the top of the ABC, the board has chosen to seek refuge in a steady pair of hands by turning to an appointment from within.
But investors like him, and a period of calm in a steady pair of hands seems to be what the board is looking for although Siemens's share price has hardly moved since the weekend's drama.
The BBC's Lineker, painful puns aside – "It's Spain, the result was Navas [the scorer] in doubt" plumbing new depths – has been a steady pair of hands compared with the labouring Adrian Chiles, with whom it is difficult to feel at ease, but ITV are generally felt to have won the punditry battle.
"He's a very steady pair of hands.
He has been, in our view, a strong steady pair of hands," he said, adding that "In general, such wholesale and unexpected management change suggests the underlying story is more volatile/higher risk than the market had previously understood".
In his place was another much admired and steady pair of hands, the veteran Labour press man, David Hill.
On this ticket, Pence is the GOP's steady pair of hands compared with the politically inexperienced Trump, but the impact of the religious freedom battle lingers, and his decades of anti-LGBT attitudes that preceded it remain.
There was the creasy-faced, steady pair of hands Peter Jay steering along the Road To Riches (BBC2, Sunday) towards his theory that the industrial revolution turned us all into consumers, when along came Starkey on a bus, ready to throw spanners into poor Peter's works like confetti.
