wrong side of someone
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Another client told me that he used to fear his father’s angry outbursts, and would often say yes to avoid getting on the wrong side of someone’s temper.
From The Guardian
The tragedy of peacekeeping, he reflected, was that you are inevitably on the wrong side of someone who is in the right.
From The New Yorker
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