wake up on the wrong side of (the) bed

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wake up on the wrong side of (the) bed

To be in a particularly and persistently irritable, unhappy, or grouchy mood or state, especially when it is not in line with one's normal disposition. I'm sorry I snapped at you earlier, I think I just woke up on the wrong side of the bed today. Jeez, the boss has been in a really bad mood all day. I guess he must have woken up on the wrong side of bed!

See also: bed, of, on, side, up, wake, wrong

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Arttu	AHRT-too	Finnish
Dobrogost	daw-BRAW-gawst (Polish)	Polish (Rare), Medieval Slavic
Nikolas	-	Greek, English
Norbert	NAWR-bert (German, Polish), NAWR-bərt (English, Dutch)	German, English, Dutch, French, Hungarian, Polish, Ancient Germanic
Baltasar (1)	bahl-tah-SAHR	Spanish
Emanuel	e-MAH-nuw-el (German)	Romanian, Portuguese, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German, Czech, Croatian