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
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

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
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
See also:
  • Davy
  • Davy Jones's locker
  • locker-room
  • not a shot in your locker
  • not have a shot in (one's) locker
  • locker
  • a shot in the locker
  • send (one) to the locker room
  • send (one) to the showers
  • send to the showers