Idiom
get up on the wrong side of the bed
Meaning
To feel irritable; to be in a bad mood; to have a bad day from the start, for no particular reason.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“You seem grumpy today, did you get up on the wrong side of the bed?”
“My coworker snapped at everyone during the morning meeting, so I suspect he got up on the wrong side of the bed.”
“Although the morning began with perfect weather, his irritable demeanor suggested he had gotten up on the wrong side of the bed.”
Examples
simple
“You seem grumpy today, did you get up on the wrong side of the bed?”
contextual
“My coworker snapped at everyone during the morning meeting, so I suspect he got up on the wrong side of the bed.”
complex
“Although the morning began with perfect weather, his irritable demeanor suggested he had gotten up on the wrong side of the bed.”
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