This idiom uses gutter in the sense of a conduit for filthy waste.
Lying in the gutter meaning.
The gutter is a metaphor for the world we live in but our personality decides where our focus lies.
If one sees himself flying lying on his back then it means comfort.
An antonym out of the gutter means away from vulgarity or sordidness as in that joke was quite innocent.
Born to a poverty stricken family she dragged herself out of the gutter to become a successful business owner.
Class class consciousness in general.
Flying for other than a traveller meansjoblessness.
For example the language in that book belongs in the gutter.
In a dream a roof also represents a woman or a wife.
Appropriate to or from a squalid degraded condition.
Get your mind out of the gutter.
This is a place where we have nought but despair melancholy hopelessness.
How we choose to see the world as opposed to how the world actually is.
And hence being in.
Appropriate to or from a squalid degraded condition.
For example the language in that book belongs in the gutter.
The lowest level especially of society.
Our thoughts can reach higher than we ever could.
Synonyms and related words.
A plum in your mouth idiom.
It can mean different things but mainly it s about perception versus reality.
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.