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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

"We's gwine t' Mars Davy Jones's locker, suah!"

From Under the Ocean to the South Pole Or, the Strange Cruise of the Submarine Wonder by Rockwood, Roy

If you do—capsize, an’ Davy Jones’s locker is the word.

From The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)




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