Down The Gutter Meaning

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Down the gutter meaning.

Get your mind out of the gutter. A low area as at the edge of a street to carry off surface water as to a sewer c. A channel at the lower edge of a roof for carrying away rain or a side of a road that is lower than the center of the road where water and garbage collects. This idiom uses gutter in the sense of a conduit for filthy waste mid 1800s.

2002 harpercollins publishers 1995 2002. Noun drain channel tube pipe ditch trench trough conduit duct sluice the waste washes down the gutter and into the city s sewerage system. Song meaningin the world of the dark sentencer the gutter isn t just a place you fall when you hit rock bottom. Pensions are in the toilet sewer toilet bad luck ill luck tough luck misfortune an unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomes.

With a few exceptions every inmate living in the dark sentencer is fitted with a belt like device known as a gutter. These devices are implanted without anesthesia into a prisoner s abdomen where they latch on to several vital organs. All that work went down the sewer. Gutter noun bad morality.

His career was in the gutter. But also refers to the mind state of an individual who comes from poverty and thus takes no shorts from anyone who gets in his way. Get your mind out of the gutter. A trough along the eaves to catch and carry off rainwater.

An antonym out of the gutter means away from vulgarity or sordidness as in that joke was quite innocent. Appropriate to or from a squalid degraded condition. Meaning he s down for doing whatever it takes in order to be a success which may include drug dealing robbery and even murder. Every fall we have to clean leaves out of the gutters.

His campaign started really strong but following a series of scandals public support for the candidate guttered out and he never got off the ground. This idiom uses gutter in the sense of a conduit for filthy waste mid 1800s. Gutter misfortune resulting in lost effort or money. The gutter slope otherwise known as the pitch is the amount the gutters slant downward to direct the path of water flow.

She was once an icon of cinema but her career guttered out in the 70s. An antonym out of the gutter means away from vulgarity or sordidness as in that joke was quite innocent. For example the language in that book belongs in the gutter. Collins thesaurus of the english language complete and unabridged 2nd edition.

A trough or groove to catch and direct something the gutters of a bowling alley. For example the language in that book belongs in the gutter. Appropriate to or from a squalid degraded condition. Entry 1 of 3 1 a.