Davy Jones’ Locker
Noun: The bottom of the sea, especially as the grave of all who perish at sea. Idiom. Nautical superstition. (Or not.)
References:Earliest recorded reference (that I’ve found so far) is 1726 in The Four Years Voyages of Capt. George Roberts by Daniel Defoe. But there’s no negative connotation there. That comes later, in The
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