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in the gutter
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 鈥渁way from vulgarity or sordidness,鈥 as in That joke was quite innocent; get your mind out of the gutter . This idiom uses gutter in the sense of 鈥渁 conduit for filthy waste.鈥 [Mid-1800s]Example Sentences
There, Shula comes across the corpse of her Uncle Fred, lying in the gutter.
"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."
We're going to play in the gutter.
There, the Wildean axiom 鈥淲e are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars鈥 is viscerally felt 鈥 and it鈥檚 a sentiment that pulses through the cultural blood of the city.
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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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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