# The OTHER Davy Jones

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 30, 2000, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-other-davy-jones/31276 "2000-08-30T01:00:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![SuaSponte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/67e7ee/32.png) [@SuaSponte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuaSponte)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2000, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-other-davy-jones/31276/1 "2000-08-30T01:00:39Z")

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“Davy Jones’ Locker” is a euphemism for death at sea, as in a sunken ship is in Davy Jones locker. As this phrase predates the Monkees’ Davy Jones, and he doesn’t strike me as particularly nautical (remember the opening credits? Monkees run away from water!), where does this phrase come from?

Sua

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**Author:** ![MrKurtz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/278dde/32.png) [@MrKurtz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrKurtz)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2000, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-other-davy-jones/31276/2 "2000-08-30T01:09:21Z")

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[http://www.quinion.com/words/qa/qa-dav1.htm](http://www.quinion.com/words/qa/qa-dav1.htm)

To paraphrase this World Wide Words article, it’s not really known.

[http://www.bartleby.com/81/4705.html](http://www.bartleby.com/81/4705.html)

This page links it’s use with Jonah (seems like a stretch to me).

Hope this helps.

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**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2000, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-other-davy-jones/31276/3 "2000-08-30T02:03:52Z")

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Oh, I thought this was about that fellow calling himself David Bowie…