It's better to get up on the wrong side of the bed, than be born on the wrong
side of the tracks ... "
Marilyn Monroe
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get up on the wrong side of bed
get up on the wrong side of bed
and get out of the wrong side of bed
Fig. to seem grouchy on a particular day. Did you get out of the wrong side of bed this morning? You are a real grouch.
See also: bed, get, of, side, up, wrong
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
get up on the wrong side of (the) bed
also wake up on the wrong side of (the) bed
to begin the day feeling unhappy and uncomfortable I got up on the wrong side of bed yesterday, and everything that could go wrong did!
Related vocabulary: out of sorts
See also: bed, get, of, side, up, wrong
Cambridge Dictionary of American Idioms Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2003. Reproduced with permission.
get up on the wrong side of bed
Be 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.
See also: bed, get, of, side, up, wrong
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved
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Idiom: Born on the wrong side of the tracks
Idiom Definitions for 'Born on the wrong side of the tracks'
Someone whose is born on the wrong side of the tracks is from the poor part of town.
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wrong side of the tracks
-Before there were cars, trains were an important means of transportation. Of course, pollution wasn't a big concern so when a train rolled by, heavy black smoke and soot went with it. Usually the wind blew the black smoke to one side of the tracks and only the poorest of people would endure living in that hard to breathe environment. No one wanted to be on "the wrong side of the tracks."
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"We were born on the wrong side of the track." Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell in 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes'--the ultimate 'bimbo' movie on my list.