As I Was Lying In The Gutter

I thought the end was near when along came the army to save my soul from sin.

As i was lying in the gutter.

This idiom uses gutter in the sense of a conduit for filthy waste mid 1800s. When my heart began to flutter and i fell into the gutter and a pig came up and lay down by my side as i lay there in the gutter with my heart still in a flutter a lady passing by began to say. 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. 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.

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. 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. A cultural lesson lying in the gutter helping someone in another country can sometimes mean a slip between cultural cracks.

Pretzels in my eyebrows. Inspirational optimism perception pessimism.