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Davy Jones
'We'll be going to Davy Jones' locker'. What does that mean?Is it like kicking the bucket? Who's this Davy Jones anyway?
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im this davy jones come to my locker and get a big surprise!!
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Davy Jones locker is the bottom of the sea.
Davy Jones is sailor slang for evils of the ocean.
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Davey Jones' Locker literally refers to the sea-bed. Davey Jones is considered to preside over all evil spirits of the sea and was a comon nautical term when chucking someone overboard (dead or alive). Yes now it is often used more generally as a euphemism for death, but particularly death at sea.
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When you send someone down to Davy Jones' locker, you send them to the bottom of the ocean to die.
As for Davy Jones...he is referenced in "The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle" written in 1750. Davy Jones is the sailor's name for the evil spirits of the ocean that take many forms. However, why sailors call these spirits Davy Jones is unknown.
In one of the other answers you received, the columnist referred to Davy Jones appearing on the Brady Bunch. This is Davy Jones of the Monkees, from the 1960's. There is actually a reference on that show of sending Davy Jones to Davy Jones' locker, but he is not the source of this term.
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It's like Hell for anyone who is always out in the water, such as sailors and fishermen.
I don't really know a better way to explain it, sorry.
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