单词 | get up on the wrong side of bed |
释义 | get up on the wrong side of bedBe in a grouchy, irritable state, as in What's got into Max today? Did he get up on the wrong side of bed? This expression alludes to the ancient superstition that it was bad luck to put one's left foot down first, and was so used in a number of 17th-century plays. By the early 1800s it was associated more with ill humor than misfortune. Words nearby get up on the wrong side of bedget under one's skin, get under someone's skin, getup, get-up-and-go, get up one's nerve, get up on the wrong side of bed, get up on the wrong side of the bed, get up steam, get used to, get-well, get what's coming to one The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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