As I Was Lying In The Gutter

This idiom uses gutter in the sense of a conduit for filthy waste mid 1800s.

As i was lying in the gutter.

An antonym out of the gutter means away from vulgarity or sordidness as in that joke was quite innocent. I thought the end was near when along came the army to save my soul from sin. Oscar wilde quotes quotable quote we are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars oscar wilde lady windermere s fan tags. Instead of the bohemian coffeehouse i d expected the cafe seemed more.

Pretzels in my eyebrows. This week lying in the gutters has been running a daily column looking at stories from the previous day and what s happening in the day ahead that is also issued as an e mail. Inspirational optimism perception pessimism. And i fell down in the gutter and a pig came by and lay down by my side as i lay there in the gutter thinking thoughts i could not utter i thought i heard a passing lady say you can tell a man who boozes by the company he chooses and with that the pig got up and walked away.

Lying in the gutter i cut the cord from my mother she pat me on the head and say go to sea boy get to sea man barbara o reilly she come in to my house trouble trouble. A cultural lesson lying in the gutter helping someone in another country can sometimes mean a slip between cultural cracks.