get up on the wrong side of the bed

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

get 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) (lit.: "got out of bed on the wrong leg.") met die verkeerde voet uit die bed klim (af) (lit.: "got out of bed on the wrong foot.")
• 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")
• Greek: ξυπνάω ανάποδα (xypnáo anápoda)
• Hungarian: bal lábbal kel fel
• Italian: alzarsi con il piede sbagliato, essere imbronciato, essere corrucciato, essere immusonito
• Norwegian: stå opp på feil side av sengen
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• Polish: wstać lewą nogą (pl)
• Portuguese: levantar do lado errado da cama, acordar com o pé esquerdo
• 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