To get up on the wrong side of the bed

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To get up on the wrong side of the bed [idiom]

To be in a bad mood and to be easily annoyed all day

Example:

What's wrong with Ali? Did he get up on the wrong side of the bed??

Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

get out of bed on the wrong side

get out of bed on the wrong side idiom

(BrE) (NAmE get up on the wrong side of the bed) to be bad-tempered for the whole day for no particular reason

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary - 4th Edition

get out of bed (on) the wrong side ( US get up on the wrong side of the bed )

to be in a bad mood and to be easily annoyed all day

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Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's Dictionary

get up on the wrong side of the bed US or chiefly Brit get out of bed on the wrong side : to be in a bad mood throughout the day
• Be careful when you talk to the boss. He got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning.

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