Down The Gutter Meaning

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Down the gutter meaning. With a few exceptions every inmate living in the dark sentencer is fitted with a belt like device known as a gutter. 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. Get your mind out of the gutter.

Last edited on aug 30 2011. Collins thesaurus of the english language complete and unabridged 2nd edition. For example the language in that book belongs in the gutter. 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. Damn that dude is gutta with his. Get your mind out of the gutter. Gutter noun bad morality.

All that work went down the sewer. Appropriate to or from a squalid degraded condition. 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. 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.

Song meaningin the world of the dark sentencer the gutter isn t just a place you fall when you hit rock bottom. His career was in the gutter. Gutter misfortune resulting in lost effort or money. Noun drain channel tube pipe ditch trench trough conduit duct sluice the waste washes down the gutter and into the city s sewerage system.

These devices are implanted without anesthesia into a prisoner s abdomen where they latch on to several vital organs. A trough along the eaves to catch and carry off rainwater. Pensions are in the toilet sewer toilet bad luck ill luck tough luck misfortune an unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomes. For example the language in that book belongs in the gutter.

This idiom uses gutter in the sense of a conduit for filthy waste mid 1800s. A trough or groove to catch and direct something the gutters of a bowling alley. To diminish weaken or dwindle before coming to an end. Meaning he s down for doing whatever it takes in order to be a success which may include drug dealing robbery and even murder.

2002 harpercollins publishers 1995 2002. A low area as at the edge of a street to carry off surface water as to a sewer c. The gutter slope is essential to the overall functioning of the system and an incorrect slope can cause a myriad of problems. This idiom uses gutter in the sense of a conduit for filthy waste mid 1800s.