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she'll be apples

she'll be apples phrase: everything will be all right.

Phrase

she'll be apples

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) Everything will be all right.
    • “She′ll be right,” Bob exuded a confidence much out of touch with the reality of the situation, “She′ll be apples.”1983, Neil Appleford, The Dish Licker, page 62
    • The thought made him smile and he patted Cec on the shoulder.
      ‘She′ll be apples,’ he encouraged, and Cec took up his cup.1989, Kerry Greenwood, “Cocaine Blues”, in Introducing the Honourable Phryne Fisher, Omnibus, page 31

Origin of she'll be apples

From rhyming slang - apples and spice = nice; compare she's apples.

Questions about she'll be apples

What does she'll be apples mean?
She'll be apples means everything will be all right.
What part of speech is she'll be apples?
She'll be apples is a phrase.

Words near she'll be apples in the dictionary

  1. She Who Must Not Be Named
  2. she'd
  3. she'd've
  4. she'l
  5. she'll
  6. she'll be apples
  7. she'll be right
  8. she'll've
  9. she's
  10. she's apples
  11. she's the cat's mother

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