there'll
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ðɛəɹl/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ðɛəl/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ðɛɹl/, /ðeɹl/
- Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)l, -ɛ(ɹ)l, -eɹl
Contraction
there'll
- (colloquial) Contraction of there will.
- There'll be hell to pay if you don't.
- 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
- “I don't know how you and the ‘head,’ as you call him, will get on, but I do know that if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. […] ”
- 1945, J. B. Priestley, chapter 3, in An Inspector Calls:
- “Most of this is bound to come out. There'll be a public scandal”
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