Advertisement
Advertisement
View synonyms for in the gutter
in the gutter
Discover More
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]Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Browse