go to Davy Jones's locker

go to Davy Jones's locker

To die at sea. Tragically, many men from that battle in the Pacific Ocean went to Davy Jones's locker.

See also: Davy, go, locker, to

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go to Davy Jones's locker

be drowned at sea.

Davy Jones is identified in Tobias Smollett's Peregrine Pickle ( 1751 ) as ‘the fiend that presides over all the evil spirits of the deep’, but the origin of the name is uncertain.

See also: Davy, go, locker, to

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