born on the wrong side of the blanket

Rur. [of a child] illegitimate. All his life, Edward felt that people looked down on him because he was born on the wrong side of the blanket. Just between you and me, I suspect Mrs. Potter's oldest child was born on the wrong side of the blanket.

See also: blanket, born, of, on, side, wrong

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Keisha	KEE-shə	African American
Bakehouse	['beikhaus]
Rafael	rah-fah-EL (Spanish), RAH-fah-el (German)	Spanish, Portuguese, German, Hungarian, Slovene, Macedonian
Walters	[.wɔ:ltəz]
PaŠKal	-	Croatian (Rare)
Damodara	-	Hinduism