Verb (Winchester College).—To fall in the water flat on the stomach.
Fr., piquer un plat-ventre.
To lap the gutter, verb. phr. (common).—To be in the last stage of
intoxication. For synonyms, see Drinks and Screwed.
Carry me out and leave me in the gutter, phr. (American).—See Carry me
out.
Gutter-alley (or Lane), subs. (common).—The throat. All goes down
Gutter-lane = ‘He spends all on his stomach.’
English Synonyms.—Beer Street; common sewer; drain; funnel; Gin Lane;
gulf; gullet; gully-hole; gutter; Holloway; Peck Alley; Red Lane; the
Red Sea; Spew Alley; swallow; thrapple; throttle; whistle.
French Synonyms.—La carafe (tramps’); la creuse (popular = Holloway);
le corridor; le cornet (popular); le couloir; le lampas; la goule
(popular); le gose (popular: an abbreviation of gosier: also gésier);
la gargoine (thieves’); la gargarousse (thieves’ = Old Gargles); le
four (popular = the oven); le fanal (popular); l’entonnoir (popular =
the funnel); l’avaloir (thieves’ = the swallow).
German Synonym.—Kollert (Hanoverian).
Spanish Synonym.—La gorja.
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
1787. Grose, Prov. Glossary, g. (1811), p. 81. All goeth down
Gutter Lane. That is, the throat. This proverb is applicable to
those who spend all their substance in eating and drinking.