ocker Idiom

off your rocker

crazy, not rational, around the bend You gave away your piano? You're off your rocker!

chocker

1. chocolate; also chocko or the more childlike term chockies
2. very crowded, busy. Also phrased as chocko; from the expression chock-a-block

docker

a keg party located in the desert or a similar remote area:"Greg's having a docker on Saturday"

whockerjawed

damaged, jammed, or out of alignment

off one's rocker

Idiom(s): off one's rocker AND off one's nut; off one's trolley

Theme: CRAZINESS

crazy; silly. (Slang.)
• Sometimes, Bob, I think you're off your rocker.
• Good grief, John. You re off your nut.
• About this time of the day I go off my trolley. I get so tired.

go to Davy Jones's locker

Idiom(s): go to Davy Jones's locker

Theme: DEPTH

to go to the bottom of the sea. (Thought of as a nautical expression.)
• My camera fell overboard and went to Davy Jones's locker.
• My uncle was a sailor. He went to Davy Jones's locker during a terrible storm.

Davy Jones's locker

Idiom(s): Davy Jones's locker

Theme: SEA

the bottom of the sea, especially when it is a grave. (From the seamen's name for the evil spirit of the sea.)
• They were going to sail around the world, but ended up in Davy Jones's locker.
• Most of the gold from that trading ship is in Davy Jones's locker.

Black as Newgate's knocker

(UK) If things are as black as Newgate's knocker, they are very bad. Newgate was an infamous prison in England, so its door knocker meant trouble.

Davey Jones' locker

Davey Jones' locker is the bottom of the sea or resting place of drowned sailors.('Davy Jones' locker' is an alternative spelling.)

off one's rocker|off|off one's trolley|rocker|trol

adj. phr., informal Not thinking correctly; crazy; silly; foolish. Tom is off his rocker if he thinks he can run faster than Bob can. If you think you can learn to figure skate in one lesson, you're off your trolley.
Synonym: OUT OF ONE'S HEAD.

locker

locker
see Davy Jones's locker.

rocker

rocker
see off one's head.

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English Vocalbulary

bedsides bedsit bedsitter bedsore bedsores bedspread bedspreads bedstead bedsteads bedtime bedtime story bedtimes bee bee board bee house bee houses bee keeper bee keepers