OXFORD 9000
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Davy Jones's locker

Meanings (ES + gloss)
el fondo del mar
The bottom of the sea, seen as a grave for sailors and the resting-place of anything that goes overboard and is lost.
"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.
... are discovered singing a melancholy duet, bewailing the loss of an honest tar, whom they suppose (to use the burthen of the song) "is in Davy Jones's locker."
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