Davy Jones's locker

Language: en

Meaning: (nautical,idiomatic)Thebottom of the sea, seen as agraveforsailorsand the resting-place of anything that goesoverboardand is lost.1774, Nicholas Cresswell,The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell, 1774-7:"Damn my eyes," says he, "they are gone toDavy Jones's locker."NOTE: Partridge erroneously refers to this as from the journal of Richard rather than Nicholas Cresswell.1781August, Isaac Kimber, Edward Kimber, “The Summer Theatre”, inThe London Magazine, or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer, volume50, page360:... are discovered singing a melancholy duet, bewailing the loss of an honest tar, whom they suppose (to use the burthen of the song) "is inDavy Jones's locker."

Examples:Note: the examples for non latin scripts have a high likelihood of mistakes, we do not own any of this data and it is sourced from Wiktionary, the NLLB database and Opensubtitles. Please help us improve this by contributing correct examples. We will be working to fix this issue over time however it is a bigger issue due to the the difficulties in dealing with non latin scripts and grammatical structures(non-romantic/european languages have lower resources as well ).

Validation Count: 0

Sourced from Wiktionary