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Davy Jones's locker

[john-ziz, johnz] / ˈdʒoʊn zɪz, dʒoʊnz /




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Mr Sherborne said on Thursday it was a "shame" that messages where "lying at the bottom of the sea in Davy Jones's locker".

From BBC • May 13, 2022

What you see here is a Brazilian maniac dropping into the tsunami-manifestation of Davy Jones's locker, and somehow living not only tell the tale, but also accept to an award for it.

From Golf Digest • Apr. 30, 2018

Like everybody else, scientists have long wanted to know what Davy Jones's locker holds, besides sunken ships.

From Time Magazine Archive

“There, my lad, that’s my little fortin’, enough to pay my freight through to Davy Jones’s locker, I daresay.

From Athelstane Ford by Upward, Allen

I and twenty-four others were picked up, but the rest went to Davy Jones’s locker.

From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Mitford, Bertram




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