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*in the gutter

Fig. [of a person] in a low state; poor and homeless. (*Typically: be ~; fall [into] ~; put some-one [into] ~.) You had better straighten out your life, or you'll end in the gutter. His bad habits put him into the gutter.

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Instead the grass is allowed to fall into the gutters only to be washed down the drains, which in turn become blocked. Letter: You Say - Recycling put out to grass? by Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England) signs hanging until they rot off and fall into the gutters. COUNCIL REFUSES TO SEE THE SIGNS OF URBAN UGLINESS by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)			fall foul of fall from fall from grace fall from power fall head over heels fall head over heels in love fall heir to fall ill fall in fall in a heap fall in line fall in love fall in on fall in place fall in with fall into a trap fall into clutches fall into decay fall into disfavor fall into disgrace fall into disuse fall into hands fall into lap fall into line fall into place fall into the gutter fall into the trap of fall into the wrong hands fall off fall off off the radar fall off perch fall off the map fall off the wagon fall on fall on deaf ears fall on face fall on hard times fall on knees fall on stony ground fall on sword fall out fall out of bed fall out of favor fall out of love fall out with fall outside fall over fall over backwards fall over oneself fall overboard fall prey to			fall in the drink fall in with fall in with fall in with fall in with fall in with fall into fall into fall into a trap fall into clutches fall into decay fall into decay fall into disfavor fall into disgrace fall into disuse fall into error fall into hands fall into lap fall into lap fall into lap fall into lap fall into lap fall into line fall into line fall into line fall into line fall into line fall into place fall into place fall into someone's trap fall into the gutter fall into the trap fall into the trap of fall into the wrong hands Fall Joint Computer Conference fall like a ton of bricks fall like dominoes fall like ninepins fall like ninepins fall line fall line fall lines fall lines Fall Money Fall Mountain Regional High School Fall of a Body Fall of Adam Fall of Autumn Skies Fall of Byzantium Fall of Constantinople Fall of Empires fall of ground Fall of Istanbul Fall of Land Fall of Man Fall of Man Fall of Man Fall of Man Fall of man (Unification Church) Fall of man (Unification Church) Fall of Myth Drannor

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in the gutter (redirected from fall into the gutter)

in the gutter
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