"wake up on the wrong side of bed" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-wake up on the wrong side of bed.ogg [Australia] Forms: wakes up on the wrong side of bed [present, singular, third-person], waking up on the wrong side of bed [participle, present], woke up on the wrong side of bed [past], woken up on the wrong side of bed [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|wake<,,woke,woken> up on the wrong side of bed|head=wake up on the wrong side of bed}} wake up on the wrong side of bed (third-person singular simple present wakes up on the wrong side of bed, present participle waking up on the wrong side of bed, simple past woke up on the wrong side of bed, past participle woken up on the wrong side of bed)
  1. (idiomatic) To feel grumpy and irritable; to be easily annoyed. Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-wake_up_on_the_wrong_side_of_bed-en-verb-8td-F2Vk Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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