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(nautical, idiomatic) The bottom of the ocean, seen as a grave for sailors and the resting-place of anything that goes overboard and is lost.

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Davy Jones's locker

Source Word

Davy Jones's locker

Proper noun

idiomatic

Japanese Meaning

海底、すなわち船乗りの墓場や、船から落ちたものが永遠に眠る場所としての比喩表現 / 海難事故での死や転落物の最終的な安息の地として表現される意味

After the storm, the captain feared his son's ship had gone to Davy Jones's locker.

嵐の後、船長は息子の船が海の底、船乗りたちの墓になってしまったのではないかと恐れた。

Sense（1）

"Damn my eyes," says he, "they are gone to Davy Jones's locker."

NOTE: Partridge erroneously refers to this as from the journal of Richard rather than Nicholas Cresswell.