get out of bed on the wrong side Definition

bed
noun

1. A piece of furniture for sleeping on, generally a wooden and/or metal frame with a mattress and coverings, etc on it.

Thesaurus: sack (slang), cot, mattress, bunk, pallet, couch, chaise, berth, hay (slang).
2. A place in which anything (eg an animal) sleeps or rests.
3. colloq
Sleep or rest.
Example: ready for bed
4. The bottom of a river, lake or sea.
5. An area of ground in a garden, for growing plants. Often in compounds.

Example: rose-bed
Thesaurus: garden, patch, strip, area, plot, row.
6. A flat surface or base, especially one made of slate, brick or tile, on which something can be supported or laid down.
7. A layer or stratum, eg of oysters, sedimentary rock, etc.
8. colloq
Sexual intercourse; marital relations.
Example: All he ever thinks about is bed
9. A place available for occupancy in a residential home, nursing home or hospital.

verb bedded, bedding

tr & intr
1. To go to bed, or put someone in bed or in a place to sleep.

Example: bedded down on the sofa
Form: bed down (usually)
Form: bed someone down
2. To plant it in the soil, in a garden, etc.

Form: bed something out (usually)
3. To place or fix something firmly.

Example: Its base was bedded in concrete
Thesaurus: embed, implant, plant, insert, ground, fasten, fix, root, settle.
4. colloq
To have sexual intercourse with someone.
tr & intr
5. To arrange something in or to form, layers.

Derivative: bed of roses

See separate entry.

Idiom: get out of bed on the wrong side

colloq
To start the day in a bad mood.

Idiom: go to bed

Said of a newspaper or magazine, etc: to go to press.

Idiom: go to bed with someone

colloq
To have sexual intercourse with them.

Idiom: in bed with someone or something

colloq
In close involvement or collusion with (a person, organization, company, etc).

Idiom: make one's bed and have to lie in it

To have to accept the disadvantages or problems that result from one's own actions or past decisions.

Idiom: make the bed

To make the bedclothes tidy after the bed has been slept in.

Idiom: put something to bed

To send (a newspaper or magazine, etc) to press.

Idiom: take to one's bed

To go to bed and remain there, because of illness, grief, etc.

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon bedd.

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wrong
adj

1. Not correct or accurate; mistaken.

Thesaurus: inaccurate, erroneous, false, incorrect, mistaken, off base (US), wide of the mark; Antonym: accurate, correct.
2. Not appropriate or suitable.
3. Not good or sensible; unjustifiable.
4. Morally bad; wicked.

Thesaurus: improper, inappropriate, bad, unethical, dishonest, dishonourable, reprehensible, unseemly, immoral, illicit, criminal, illegal, felonious; Antonym: ethical, right.
5. Defective or faulty.
6. Amiss; causing trouble, pain, etc.

Thesaurus: amiss, awry.
7. Said of one side of a fabric or garment, etc: intended as the inner or unseen side.
8. Not socially acceptable.

adverb

1. Incorrectly.
2. Improperly; badly.

noun

1. Whatever is not right or just.
2. Any injury done to someone else.

Thesaurus: transgression, sin, inequity, error, injustice, offence, abuse, crime, misdeed, infraction, trespass.
3. law.
An offence, either against an individual (private wrong) or against the public or society (public wrong).

verb wronged, wronging

1. To treat someone unjustly; to do wrong to someone.

Thesaurus: abuse, harm, hurt, injure, malign, mistreat, oppress, ill-use.
2. To judge unfairly.
3. To deprive someone of some right; to defraud.

Derivative: wronger
noun

Derivative: wrongly
adverb

In the wrong direction or way.
Thesaurus: incorrectly, inaccurately, erroneously, mistakenly; Antonym: rightly.

Derivative: wrongness
noun

Idiom: don't get me wrong

colloq
Don't misinterpret or misunderstand me.

Idiom: get on the wrong side of someone

colloq
To antagonize them; to make them displeased or annoyed with one.

Idiom: get out of bed on the wrong side

To get up in the morning in a bad mood.

Idiom: get something wrong

To give the incorrect answer to it, or do it incorrectly.

To misunderstand it.

Idiom: go wrong

Said of plans, etc: to fail to go as intended.

To make an error.

To stray morally; to fall into bad ways.

Said of a mechanical device: to stop functioning properly.

Idiom: in the wrong

Guilty of an error or injustice.

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon wrang.