the wrong side of
English
Phrase
the wrong side of
- Older than (the stated age, typically a decade).
- She looked to be the wrong side of forty.
- 1887, H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure:
- Two weary, worn-out men, one of them on the wrong side of forty, a rocking-stone to take off from, a trembling point of rock some few feet across to land upon, and a bottomless gulf to be cleared in a raging gale!
- Used in various other expressions to refer to an inimical or disfavoured condition.
- the wrong side of the tracks, the wrong side of the law, the wrong side of history
See also
- get out of bed on the wrong side
- on the wrong foot