the wrong side of the bed

the wrong side of the bed

A bad mood. Typically used in the phrase "woke up on the wrong side of the bed," meaning one is in a bad mood, usually for no reason. Mark just snapped at us for no reason! Geez, he must have woken up on the wrong side of the bed today.
See also: bed, of, side, wrong
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • be in a bad mood
  • in a bad mood
  • mood
  • story of my life, the
  • it's the story of my life
  • (it's/that's the) story of my life
  • as bad as all that
  • have a bad opinion of (someone or something)
  • have a good, bad, high, low, etc. opinion of somebody/something
  • be downhill all the way
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But Muriel makes one thing perfectly clear: 'Our app will not have any ad banners or pop-ups.' After all, they don't want people waking up on the wrong side of the bed.
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We all have days where when we wake up on the wrong side of the bed and every minuscule task seems excruciatingly difficult to execute.
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Piers Morgan clearly woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning.
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And if it was just a case of waking up on the wrong side of the bed - we all have those days, remember - then the news that defender Ben Turner could be out for the rest of the campaign with ankle ligament damage will not have improved the manager's mood.