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in the gutter



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Idioms and Phrases

Appropriate to or from a squalid, degraded condition. For example, The language in that book belongs in the gutter . An antonym, out of the gutter , means “away from vulgarity or sordidness,†as in That joke was quite innocent; get your mind out of the gutter . This idiom uses gutter in the sense of “a conduit for filthy waste.†[Mid-1800s]
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There, Shula comes across the corpse of her Uncle Fred, lying in the gutter.

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"He used to hide them in the gutter above his bedroom window and in the toilet cistern - I'd cut open his old teddy bears and he'd stashed them in there - my husband and I didn't know what to do."

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We're going to play in the gutter.

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There, the Wildean axiom “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars†is viscerally felt — and it’s a sentiment that pulses through the cultural blood of the city.

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The whole thing is a harsh reminder, to his face, that Trump is more suited to wallowing in the gutter than sitting on a throne.

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