Davy Jones' locker
Example Sentences
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“But will OC Weekly be better off freed from Davy Jones’ locker, only to be added to Calle’s portfolio of once powerful yet now skeletonized sister papers?”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 19, 2023
The theatrical Mr Sherborne noted it was "a shame" that the phone was "lying at the bottom of the sea in Davy Jones' locker".
From BBC • May 19, 2022
While the Flying Dutchman ghost ship wreaks havoc on the Seven Seas, Will, Elizabeth and Barbossa unite to save Jack Sparrow from Davy Jones’ locker.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 2019
It trails a slender cable behind it that transmits whatever it sees back to a monitor topside, so you can rummage through Davy Jones' locker while sunning yourself on deck and sipping a mai tai.
From Time Magazine Archive
"But we'd better be spry about it, for it'll be Davy Jones' locker for us if we get caught in a gale off the reefs."
From Where the Sun Swings North by Willoughby, Barrett
