The phrase "a gutter of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a channel or trough, often for water or waste, or metaphorically to refer to something that is low or degraded in quality.
Example: "The heavy rain caused a gutter of water to form along the side of the road, making it difficult for pedestrians to pass."
Alternatives: "a channel of" or "a trough of".
"I think of Europe as a gutter of autumn leaves / choked like the thoughts in an old woman's throat": here is a triple metaphor, as a continent becomes a gutter and leaves become thoughts and thoughts clog the throat.
The red arrows indicate a gutter of water.
The Jigokudani crater could not be seen in the photographs because of smoke, but a gutter of water from a crater wall could be identified (Fig. 3b).
Outside of her apartment door, Ana built a makeshift barrier and dug a gutter of sorts, hoping to impede the water from entering her home.
Yet it is cynicism aimed not at Taylor but at the media so eager to portray, and a public so eager to ogle, a woman of worldly influence dragged through a gutter of sexual and political disparagement.
The letter brought back memories of having my face smushed into a patch of snot-damp carpet by Rudy the facilitator, his knee pressed into my back, while he whispered in my ear that he loved me, that unless I gave up the ego trip and got into my feelings I was bound to end up dying in a gutter of AIDS.
But what holds it is the working-class poetry of Derek Ahonen's script, with the "broken down dreams" and a "gutter full of empty stomachs" of a hard-boiled era of soulful stiffs and dreamers going nowhere.
Although a lot of citizens in places like Breaux Bridge would have been hard put a few years ago to find anything good to say about a lot of mindless young people roaming the streets carrying beer cans, they now realize that beer is less inebriating than wine and that a gutter full of beer cans is not nearly as dangerous as a gutter full of broken glass.
Three black chickens scratch along a filthy gutter of blue-grey water next to the public latrine.
Who would predict that urbane "modern" Conservatives would plunge so fast into a Powellite gutter of racism that has not been seen in Westminster for decades?
David donated a DJ mix CD to a gutter punk outside of Dunkin Donuts this morning.
