Total Phrases- 4514
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Out-negative / Annoyed url

Listen to me-1

  1. Do I have to spell it out for you?
  2. I don’t suppose it ever dawned on you.
  3. You’re as thick as a brick.
  4. It seems that I can’t get through to you.
  5. I hope you get the message.
  6. You better get this straight.
  7. It goes in one ear and out the other.
  8. I’m going to give you a piece of my mind.
  9. You’re barking up the wrong tree.
  10. Don’t waste your breath.
  11. You’ve got to be kidding.

Listen to me-1

Out-negative / Annoyed
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Out-positive / Friendship url

Generosity

  1. Take to your hearts content.
  2. Whatever is mine is yours.
  3. My heart is overflowing with a desire to give to you.
  4. I want you to feel totally comfortable here.
  5. I want you to regard my house as your home away from home.
  6. If everything is not totally to your liking, just let me know.
  7. Allow me to do something for you for a change.
  8. Share and share alike.
  9. I’m at your beck and call.

Generosity

Out-positive / Friendship
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Out-neutral / Advice url

Others - Protect yourself-1

  1. You’ve got to watch him like a hawk.
  2. You’ve over estimated him.
  3. Appearances can be deceiving.
  4. Beauty is only skin deep.
  5. Don’t let him out of your sight.
  6. She’s as slippery as an eel.
  7. If you want my advice, I’d say just drop him like a hot potato.
  8. He’ll take you to the cleaners.
  9. Let him make the first move.
  10. She’s got you in the palm of her hand.
  11. He’s not the sharpest tool in the shed.
  12. He’s out to lunch.
  13. Sometimes he acts like a bull in a china shop.

Others - Protect yourself-1

Out-neutral / Advice
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Out-neutral / Advice url

Action-2

  1. Make each moment count.
  2. A watched pot never boils.
  3. Put the squeeze on him.
  4. Just make an appearance.
  5. Look straight ahead, don’t look back.
  6. You only live once.
  7. Take the money and run.
  8. When you get a chance, take another stab at it, maybe it will be more successful than when you tried the last time.
  9. Get in on the action.
  10. Please make up your mind already.
  11. It’s your best bet.
  12. The solution is being served to you on a silver platter.
  13. A word to the wise is sufficient.
  14. You’ve got to rise to the occasion.

Action-2

Out-neutral / Advice
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In-positive / Remembering url

Remembering an event from the past

  1. It’ll never be the same as it was back then.
  2. That’s history now.
  3. That was a night to remember.
  4. I guess you had to have been there.
  5. I’ve burnt a lot of bridges behind me.
  6. I miss those times long gone.
  7. The joy that I felt when I got married was off the charts.
  8. Then it happened, and the rest is history.

Remembering an event from the past

In-positive / Remembering
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Out-neutral / Advice url

Expand your choices

  1. Don’t knock it till you try it.
  2. Reach for the stars.
  3. Reach for the sky.
  4. There’s more than one way to skin a cat.
  5. Give it one more try.
  6. Don’t snub your nose at it.
  7. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
  8. It depends on what you want to do.

Expand your choices

Out-neutral / Advice
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In-negative / Doubt url

Being told that a bad investment you made will go back up

  1. You’re just trying to make me feel better.
  2. How can you be so sure?
  3. I think the truth is more complicated than the way you’re making it sound.
  4. What you’re saying just doesn’t hold water.
  5. I wouldn’t hold my breath.
  6. That’ll be the day.
  7. I don’t believe it for a minute.
  8. After what already happened, what difference does it make anyway?
  9. Maybe yes, maybe no.

Being told that a bad investment you made will go back up

In-negative / Doubt
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Out-positive / Encouragement url

For a friend who won the race for State Senator against a more popular candidate

  1. You came out smelling like a rose.
  2. I don’t know how you pulled this one off, but I’m impressed.
  3. You sure have come a long way.
  4. You handled it like a pro.
  5. You’re one of a kind.
  6. We’ve been behind you all the way.
  7. Your speech was spoken like a true diplomat.
  8. Apparently you made quite an impression.

For a friend who won the race for State Senator against a more popular candidate

Out-positive / Encouragement
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In-positive / Determination url

Therapist with patient

  1. Where there’s a will, there’s a way.
  2. This is an opportunity of a lifetime.
  3. I’m going to tell it to you straight, even if it means bursting your balloon.
  4. Rome wasn’t built in a day.
  5. There’s nothing that we can’t do if we put our minds to it.
  6. Let’s not give up before we start.
  7. There are so many false starts, but it’s important that we don’t give up hope.
  8. There’s more than one way to skin a cat.
  9. It doesn’t have to be that way.
  10. Unfortunately we often have to learn the hard way.
  11. Let’s start tying up loose ends.
  12. All beginnings are hard.
  13. Often just when we think it will be clear sailing from here on in, POW – something unexpected comes from out of the blue to blow our well laid plans to smithereens, and suddenly it’s back to the drawing board, forcing us to rethink the whole thing through from start to finish, from soup to nuts.

Therapist with patient

In-positive / Determination
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Out-neutral / Advice url

When someone is trying to pick a fight with you.

  1. Leave it alone.
  2. Don’t make an issue of it.
  3. You don’t have to answer every dog that barks.
  4. If you don’t let it drop, it’s going to escalate.
  5. Just because someone throws down the gauntlet, doesn’t mean you have to pick it up.
  6. Leave it well enough alone.
  7. Just ignore it.
  8. Don’t pay it any mind.
  9. Let it be.
  10. I can assure you, nothing good is going to come from this.
  11. Two wrongs don't make a right.
  12. Just walk away, and pretend that it never happened.
  13. You should know better than that.
  14. Sometimes it's better to say nothing at all in response.
  15. If you don't respond, it will all just blow over as if nothing happened.
  16. One word can lead to another, until it's a fire that's hard to put out.
  17. Don't make an issue out of it.
  18. I've seen it happen countless number of times before, and it always has the same bad, stupid ending.
  19. The sad thing about it, is that it's so preventable.
  20. Take a deep breath, don't respond, and walk away.
  21. Discretion is the better part of valor.
  22. These things lead to no good.
  23. Don’t get sucked into the game their playing.
  24. Nothing good is going to come from this.
  25. It always has the same bad ending, so nip it in the bud.
  26. A wise person thinks twice, before saying nothing.

When someone is trying to pick a fight with you.

Out-neutral / Advice
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Out-negative / Anger url

You disgust me

  1. What you did really turns my stomach.
  2. You make me sick!
  3. You’re one of nature’s greatest disasters.
  4. I’m not even going to honor your insulting comment with a reply.
  5. You’re a wise guy.
  6. You’re more trouble than your worth.
  7. You really get on my nerves.

You disgust me

Out-negative / Anger
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In-positive / Confidence url

Shopping for clothes for camp

  1. You’ll be out of here so fast your head will spin.
  2. We’re getting our money’s worth.
  3. That was a productive use of our time.
  4. I’ve got it all under control.
  5. I’m going to have to ride shotgun on this task to make sure it gets done.
  6. Now this certainly seems like a worthwhile endeavor.

Shopping for clothes for camp

In-positive / Confidence