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

1. (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”