born on the wrong side of the blanket

Born to parents who were not married. His parents eventually married, but that boy was born on the wrong side of the blanket.

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

Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

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

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

born on the wrong side of the blanket

illegitimate. dated

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

Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

wrong side of the blanket, born on the

Illegitimate. This term was current in the eighteenth century and may well be obsolete. Tobias Smollett used it in Humphry Clinker (1771): “My mother was an honest woman. I didn’t come in on the wrong side of the blanket.”

词组	born on the wrong side of the blanket
释义	born on the wrong side of the blanket born on the wrong side of the blanket Born to parents who were not married. His parents eventually married, but that boy was born on the wrong side of the blanket. See also: blanket, born, of, on, side, wrong Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. 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 McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. born on the wrong side of the blanket illegitimate. dated See also: blanket, born, of, on, side, wrong Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary wrong side of the blanket, born on the Illegitimate. This term was current in the eighteenth century and may well be obsolete. Tobias Smollett used it in Humphry Clinker (1771): “My mother was an honest woman. I didn’t come in on the wrong side of the blanket.” See also: born, of, on, side, wrong The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer See also: wrong side of the blanket, born on the wrong side of the blanket on the wrong side of the blanket born out of wedlock wedlock woods colt parentally challenged be born that way be/be born/be made that way bred
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