As I Was Lying In The Gutter

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.

As i was lying in the gutter.

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

An antonym out of the gutter means away from vulgarity or sordidness as in that joke was quite innocent. This idiom uses gutter in the sense of a conduit for filthy waste mid 1800s. Inspirational optimism perception pessimism. Get your mind out of the gutter.

The salvation army song i was lying in the gutter all covered up with beer. A cultural lesson lying in the gutter helping someone in another country can sometimes mean a slip between cultural cracks.