wrong side of bed

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

get up on the wrong side of the bed (third-person singular simple present gets up on the wrong side of the bed, present participle getting up on the wrong side of the bed, simple past got up on the wrong side of the bed, past participle (UK) got up on the wrong side of the bed or (US) gotten up on the wrong side of the bed)

1. (idiomatic) To feel irritable; to be in a bad mood; to have a bad day from the start, for no particular reason.

   I think my boss got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning. He's been grumpy all day.

Synonyms

• get out of bed on the wrong side
• wake up on the wrong side of bed
• wake up on the wrong side of the bed

Translations

to feel irritable without a particular reason

Afrikaans: met die verkeerde been uit die bed klim (af) (literally “get out of bed on the wrong leg”) met die verkeerde voet uit die bed klim (af) (literally “get out of bed on the wrong foot”) Chinese: Mandarin: 心烦气燥, 吃错药 (zh) (chī cuò yào, literally “take the wrong medicine”) Dutch: met het verkeerde been uit bed stappen Finnish: nousta sängystä väärällä jalalla French: se lever du pied gauche (fr) German: mit dem linken Fuß zuerst aufgestanden sein (de) (literally “get up first on the left foot”), mit dem falschen Fuß aufgestanden sein (literally “get up on the wrong foot”) Greek: ξυπνάω ανάποδα (xypnáo anápoda) Hungarian: bal lábbal kel fel (hu) Italian: alzarsi con il piede sbagliato Norwegian: stå opp på feil side av sengen Polish: wstawać lewą nogą impf, wstać lewą nogą (pl) pf Portuguese: levantar do lado errado da cama, acordar com o pé esquerdo Romanian: se trezi cu fața la cearșaf (literally “wake up facing the bedsheet”) Russian: встать не с той ноги́ (vstatʹ ne s toj nogí, literally “get up on the wrong foot”) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: у̀стати на лије̑вӯ но̏гу / у̀стати на ле̑вӯ но̏гу Roman: ùstati na lijȇvū nȍgu / ùstati na lȇvū nȍgu Slovene: vstati z levo nogo (literally “get up on the left foot”) Spanish: levantarse del lado equivocado de la cama, levantarse con el pie izquierdo Swedish: vakna på fel sida (sv) Turkish: solundan kalkmak (literally “wake up on the left side”), tersinden kalkmak Ukrainian: встати не з тієї ноги (vstaty ne z tijeji nohy)

See also

• wrong side of the tracks