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Re: Davey Jones's Locker

Posted by R. Berg on May 22, 2003

In Reply to: Davey Jones's Locker posted by Sax on May 22, 2003

: Can you please tell me how this term originated and what it means? Thank you,
: SAX

It means the bottom of the ocean. I'm almost sure this term was discussed here not too long ago and an explanation was posted. I tried to find it in the archives, but the search function wasn't working properly. Searching with "locker" brought up a bunch of irrelevant links.