in the gutter

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]

Words Nearby in the gutter

in the first place
in the flesh
in the flush of
in the fullness of time
in the groove
in the gutter
in the hands of
in the heat of
in the hole
in the hope
in the hot seat

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