she'll be right

What it means

1. 1.

   It'll be fine; it'll work out. An expression of relaxed optimism, sometimes warranted and sometimes an excuse for not checking properly.

In use

• Don't stress about it, she'll be right.

• The whole roof was held on with she'll-be-right engineering.

  Note: Used attributively, and critically. 'She'll-be-right attitude' is a standard complaint.

Where it comes from

The 'she' is impersonal, as in 'she's a beauty' — a long-standing feature of Australian and New Zealand English in which an unspecified situation takes a feminine pronoun.