Slang in a state of total waste failure or ruination.
Going down the gutter meaning.
Definition of go down the drain in the idioms dictionary.
For example the language in that book belongs in the gutter.
Drain channel tube pipe more synonyms of gutter.
Countable noun the gutter is the edge of a road next to the pavement where rain water collects and flows away.
In the gutter appropriate to or from a squalid degraded condition.
It is supposed to be washed down the gutter and into the city s vast sewerage system.
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Slang in a state of total waste failure or ruination.
They were aware that their public image was rapidly going down the drain.
My father s company is now going to be in the gutter because of the way the incompetent new ceo is running things.
Noun drain channel tube pipe ditch trench trough conduit duct sluice the waste washes down the gutter and into the city s sewerage system.
My dad once threw our entire life savings in the gutter betting on horses one weekend.
My dad once threw our entire life savings in the gutter betting on horses one weekend.
An antonym out of the gutter means away from vulgarity or sordidness as in that joke was quite innocent.
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Every fall we have to clean leaves out of the gutters.
Common if something is going down the drain down the tubes or down the pan it is getting worse or being destroyed and it is unlikely to recover.
Downspout a vertical enclosed pipe which is attached to the side of the home.
Gutter noun bad morality.
What does go down the drain expression mean.
My father s company is now going to be in the gutter because of the way the incompetent new ceo is running things.
A channel at the lower edge of a roof for carrying away rain or a side of a road that is lower than the center of the road where water and garbage collects.
Definitions by the largest idiom dictionary.
People don t like to see marriages going down the tubes.
Get your mind out of the gutter.
Guttering in its earliest form consisted of lined wooden or stone troughs.
Runoff water and snowmelt falls into the gutter sections.
Go down the drain phrase.
