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
- 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