Idiom
get out of bed on the wrong side
Meaning
To start the day in a bad mood for no apparent reason.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“He is grumpy because he got out of bed on the wrong side.”
“Everyone avoided the manager during the meeting because he clearly got out of bed on the wrong side this morning.”
“She snapped at her colleagues for no reason, as if she had gotten out of bed on the wrong side and decided to take her frustration out on the entire office.”
Examples
simple
“He is grumpy because he got out of bed on the wrong side.”
contextual
“Everyone avoided the manager during the meeting because he clearly got out of bed on the wrong side this morning.”
complex
“She snapped at her colleagues for no reason, as if she had gotten out of bed on the wrong side and decided to take her frustration out on the entire office.”
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