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Definition 2024

wrong_side_of_bed

get up on the wrong side of the bed

English

Verb

get up on the wrong side of the bed

(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

Translations

to feel irritable without a particular reason

Chinese:
Mandarin: 心烦气燥
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) (lit.: "got up first on the left foot"), mit dem falschen Fuß aufgestanden sein (lit.: "got up on the wrong foot")
Hungarian: bal lábbal kel fel
Italian: alzarsi con il piede sbagliato
Norwegian: stå opp på feil side av sengen
Polish: wstać lewą nogą (pl)

Portuguese: levantar do lado errado da cama
Russian: встать не с той ноги́ ‎(vstatʹ ne s toj nogí) (lit.: "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 (lit.: "to 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: soldan kalkmak /to wake up on the left side/, tersinden kalkmak

See also

wrong side of the tracks