jones : Idioms & Phrases

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bobby jones

  • noun United States golfer (1902-1971)
    Jones; Bobby Jones.
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casey jones

  • noun United States railroad engineer who died trying to stop his train from crashing into another train; a friend wrote a famous ballad describing the incident (1864-1900)
    Jones; Casey Jones.
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daniel jones

  • noun English phonetician (1881-1967)
    Jones.
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davy jones

  • noun the bottom of a sea or ocean
    Davy Jones; sea floor; ocean bottom; sea bottom; ocean floor; seabed.
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Da"vy Jones"
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  1. The spirit of the sea; sea devil; -- a term used by sailors.
    This same Davy Jones, according to the mythology of sailors, is the fiend that presides over all the evil spirits of the deep, and is seen in various shapes warning the devoted wretch of death and woe. Smollett.
Webster 1913

davy jones's locker

  • noun the bottom of a sea or ocean
    Davy Jones; sea floor; ocean bottom; sea bottom; ocean floor; seabed.
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dow jones

  • noun an indicator of stock market prices; based on the share values of 30 blue-chip stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange
    Dow Jones.
    • the Dow Jones Industrial Average is the most widely cited indicator of how the stock market is doing
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dow-jones industrial average

  • noun an indicator of stock market prices; based on the share values of 30 blue-chip stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange
    Dow Jones.
    • the Dow Jones Industrial Average is the most widely cited indicator of how the stock market is doing
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edith newbold jones wharton

  • noun United States novelist (1862-1937)
    Wharton; Edith Wharton.
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inigo jones

  • noun one of the first great English architects and a theater designer (1573-1652)
    Jones.
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john luther jones

  • noun United States railroad engineer who died trying to stop his train from crashing into another train; a friend wrote a famous ballad describing the incident (1864-1900)
    Jones; Casey Jones.
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john paul jones

  • noun American naval commander in the American Revolution (1747-1792)
    Jones.
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jones' penstemon

  • noun low plant with light blue and violet flowers in short clusters near tips of stems; Nevada to Utah
    Penstemon dolius.
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leroi jones

  • noun United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934)
    Imamu Amiri Baraka; Baraka.
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mary harris jones

  • noun United States labor leader (born in Ireland) who helped to found the Industrial Workers of the World (1830-1930)
    Jones; Mary Harris Jones.
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mother jones

  • noun United States labor leader (born in Ireland) who helped to found the Industrial Workers of the World (1830-1930)
    Jones; Mary Harris Jones.
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robert tyre jones

  • noun United States golfer (1902-1971)
    Jones; Bobby Jones.
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