get up on the wrong side of the bed

English

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

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 心烦气燥 (cmn)

• Dutch: met het verkeerde been uit bed stappen (nl)
• Finnish: nousta sängystä väärällä jalalla (fi)
• French: se lever du pied gauche (fr)
• Hungarian: bal lábbal kel fel (hu)
• Italian: alzarsi con il piede sbagliato (it)
• Norwegian: stå opp på feil side av sengen (no)

• Polish: wstać lewą nogą (pl)
• Russian: встать не с той ноги (ru) (vstat' ne s toj nogí) (lit.: "get up on the wrong foot")
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: у̀стати на лије̑вӯ но̏гу (sh) / у̀стати на ле̑вӯ но̏гу (sh)

  Roman: ùstati na lijȇvū nȍgu (sh) / ùstati na lȇvū nȍgu (sh)

• Spanish: levantarse del lado equivocado de la cama
• Swedish: stiga upp på fel sida (sv)
• Turkish: soldan kalkmak /to wake up on the left side/, tersinden kalkmak (tr)

See also

• wrong side of the tracks