English

Alternative forms

• thar she blows

Phrase

there she blows

1. (nautical) The traditional hail of the lookout in a whaler when sighting the spouting water thrown up by a whale surfacing.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, ch. 47:

     "There she blows! there! there! there! she blows! she blows!"

     "Where-away?"

     "On the lee-beam, about two miles off! a school of them!"