Get your mind out of the gutter.
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.
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.
Instead of the bohemian coffeehouse i d expected the cafe seemed more.
The salvation army song i was lying in the gutter all covered up with beer.
Pretzels in my eyebrows.
A cultural lesson lying in the gutter helping someone in another country can sometimes mean a slip between cultural cracks.
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 idiom uses gutter in the sense of a conduit for filthy waste mid 1800s.
Inspirational optimism perception pessimism.