This is an All-Ears English Podcast episode 1938. Do Lindsay and Michelle make their beds?

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In the English language, there are at least six expressions that native speakers use every day

to refer to beds. Today, find out how to use them to talk about anything from corruption

to your daily living habits.

Hello, Michelle. How's everything today? Good, Lindsay. How are you?

I'm feeling great. I'm feeling great. But you know what?

Oh, Michelle, it sounds like you maybe woke up on the wrong side of the bed.

Or what's going on? Yes, I guess I just did. I know. I could tell. I could tell. My gosh,

we start over. Yeah. Yeah. Lindsay, do you ever wake up on the wrong side of the bed?

Yes, sometimes rarely, but it does happen. It does happen. Sometimes I wake up with a mood,

you know? Yeah. Well, that's funny. On the wrong side of the bed, am I literally asking if you

sometimes just like wind up and you're on the wrong side of the bed? No, you're saying,

do I ever wake up kind of like in just in a bad mood, in a bad mood or kind of annoyed or feeling,

yeah, it's not really stress. It's more in a bad mood, right, Michelle? Right, right, right.

And we mentioned this this expression in episode 1418, which was, do you have a chip on your

shoulder? Right. So yeah, wake up on the wrong side of the bed. You just like all day, basically,

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