Davy Jones's locker
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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
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If not in Davy Jones's locker by that time, we should reach Gibraltar the next evening; afterward we should head for Naples, a two days' trip.
From The Firefly of France by Angellotti, Marion Polk
The boatswain piped all hands, and poor Peter Simple piped his eye; for the cry of the whole crew was, that they were all going to Davy Jones's locker.
From Sketches by Seymour — Volume 04 by Seymour, Robert