Davy Jones's locker
Example Sentences
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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
“Well, but, master, if a vulgar error saves a man from Davy Jones’s locker, ar’n’t it just as well to sew it up in the waistband of your trowsers?”
From Jacob Faithful by Marryat, Frederick
"Me!" said Wylie, jocosely, "why, I hailed from Davy Jones's locker last."
From Foul Play by Reade, Charles
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
