wrong side of the bed
2
7.3
- idiom
- Informal
:
levantarse de mal humor
- I got up on the wrong side of the bed
- wrong side of the bed this morning
I got up on the wrong side of the bed, I'm not a morning person.
- I got up on the wrong side of the bed, I'm not a morning person.
- And Trump woke up on the wrong side of the bed, it appears, and decided, never mind.
Examples
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Do you ever have those days where you literally get up on the wrong side of the bed and you're like mad at yourself for being upset at things?
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"Did he get up on the wrong side of the bed?" Charly laughed.
Fiction book (1993) -
Somebody got up on the wrong side of the bed.
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Did someone get up on the wrong side of the bed?
Blog text (15) -
And Trump woke up on the wrong side of the bed, it appears, and decided, never mind.
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l woke up on the wrong side of the bed.
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I got up on the wrong side of the bed, I'm not a morning person.
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It could be somebody woke up on the wrong side of the bed.
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Did you get up on the wrong side of the bed today? You seem grumpy.
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After waking up on the wrong side of the bed, she decided to have a quiet day.
Antonyms
How Irritable
Surface Forms
Morphology
The literal parts ('wrong' + 'side' + 'bed') describe a physical location and do not by themselves signal a person's mood, so a B1 learner who only knows the constituents would unlikely infer 'be in a bad mood'. However, the mapping from getting up on a particular side to being irritable is a conventionalized metaphor and many languages have parallel expressions, so there is a partially inferable connection rather than complete opacity.
Etymology
Wrong side of the bed comes from the old idea that getting up on the wrong side of the bed gives you a bad or clumsy start to the day. So the picture of starting the day badly explains why the phrase means 'to be in a bad mood'.