it'll be all right
Calm-down talk: things will work out.
Also called it'll be alright, it's gonna be all right.
Updated September 24, 2026
it'll be all right pronunciation
/IT-uhl bee awl RITE/
Meaning
What you say when somebody is wound up and you want them to breathe. Mama on the porch, preacher after a hard week, neighbor after a bad crop. It does not fix the truck. It just promises the world will settle. Country mouths say it plain, often with a hand on a shoulder.
How folks use it
- “Quit fretting about the bill. It'll be all right.”
- “Crop got beat up by hail, but it'll be all right somehow.”
Origin and etymology
Plain English reassurance, not a private Southern invention. Rural Southern and Appalachian talk kept it as everyday comfort speech next to lines like "don't you fret." Exact first use is hard to pin; the sense is as old as folks telling each other not to panic.