Total Phrases- 4535
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Out-neutral / Negotiating url

I see your point of view

  1. I understand your position.
  2. I got the point.
  3. You’ve made your point.
  4. You started me thinking.
  5. That’s a point well taken.
  6. You have a point.
  7. I must say, that is very tempting.
  8. That sounds like a reasonable alternative.
  9. OK, sounds like a plan.
  10. I must admit that what you are saying has the ring of truth.

I see your point of view

Out-neutral / Negotiating
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Out-negative / Annoyed url

You are guilty

  1. You look like the cat that swallowed the canary.
  2. That’s pretty under-handed.
  3. You’re getting away with murder.
  4. It’s all your fault.
  5. I caught you red handed.
  6. You were caught with your hand in the cookie jar.
  7. What kind of game are you playing?
  8. I feel sorry for you.
  9. You know what you did.

You are guilty

Out-negative / Annoyed
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Out-neutral / Advice url

Restraint-1

  1. Don’t get carried away.
  2. Hold your tongue.
  3. Just cool it.
  4. Just sit tight Pause for a moment.
  5. Keep your cool.
  6. Don’t make waves.
  7. It’s best to bite your tongue.
  8. Silence is golden.
  9. Bite your tongue.
  10. Somethings are better left unsaid.
  11. Two wrongs don’t make a right.

Restraint-1

Out-neutral / Advice
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Out-neutral / Advice url

Flexible

  1. It’s best just to roll with it punches.
  2. Now let’s switch gears.
  3. Don’t get bogged down.
  4. That’s the way to learn how to do things like that.
  5. You’re as young as you feel.
  6. Pick up where you left off.
  7. Variety is the spice of life.
  8. When in Rome, do as the Roman’s do.
  9. Give it another shot.
  10. What have you got to lose?
  11. Let's play it by ear.

Flexible

Out-neutral / Advice
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In-neutral / Acceptance url

Taking bad tasting medicine

  1. It all goes into the same stomach.
  2. Life’s not a bowl of cherries.
  3. Is that so terrible?
  4. It could be worse.
  5. It’s not all that bad.
  6. You have to take the good with the bad.

Taking bad tasting medicine

In-neutral / Acceptance
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In-negative / Desperation url

Breaking up a long term relationship

  1. I feel torn apart inside.
  2. That’s really depressing.
  3. Things seemed to be going well when all of a sudden our plans fell through.
  4. It’s tearing me apart at the seams.
  5. I’m down in the dumps.
  6. I don’t want to think about it.
  7. I never thought it would ever come to this.
  8. Sometimes I think, Why bother?
  9. Out of the frying pan into the fire.
  10. I feel shattered.
  11. I’m afraid I made it worse.
  12. I made the same mistake again.

Breaking up a long term relationship

In-negative / Desperation
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Out-neutral / Advice url

Strategize-1

  1. What he doesn’t know won’t hurt him.
  2. Save the best for last.
  3. What you don’t know can hurt you.
  4. As long as you’re going to take the time to do it, you might as well do it right.
  5. Too many cooks spoil the broth.
  6. People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.
  7. The ends don't justify the means.
  8. Put it to work for you.
  9. It’s important to just go through proper channels.
  10. The first step is to take a firm grasp on the situation.
  11. An elephant never forgets.
  12. It takes money to make money.
  13. Money doesn’t grow on trees.
  14. All is fair in love and war.
  15. The best way to approach this problem is to use the technique of divide and conquer.
  16. If you try to please everyone, you end up pleasing no one.
  17. You can’t focus on everything at once.

Strategize-1

Out-neutral / Advice
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In-positive / Hope url

Before they announce the winner of the lottery

  1. I think this is it.
  2. It’s the chance of a lifetime.
  3. You know anything’s possible!
  4. We’re banking on it.
  5. Even if we don’t win, there’s always next year.
  6. One could only hope.
  7. This is the moment that we’ve all been waiting for.
  8. Maybe it will be different this time.
  9. Keep your fingers crossed.
  10. We’re hoping there’s a pot of gold on the other side of the rainbow.
  11. The price is right.
  12. I hope and pray that the money will now just start rolling in.
  13. This could be our ticket to freedom.
  14. Hope springs eternal.
  15. I have high hopes for it.
  16. I have a lot riding on it.
  17. A big change for the better might be just around the corner.
  18. It would be the answer to my prayers.

Before they announce the winner of the lottery

In-positive / Hope
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In-negative / Disappointment url

Couple discussing ending a relationship

  1. Talk is cheap.
  2. We’re drifting farther and farther apart.
  3. We didn’t hit it off too well.
  4. I sense that there’s no room in your life for me.
  5. There’s no point in continuing.
  6. I’m just not in the mood for putting any more work in it.
  7. I just don’t see it going anywhere.
  8. I saw the handwriting on the wall.
  9. I don’t feel that we’re on the same wavelength.
  10. I think this is what’s better for both of us in the long run.
  11. This time I really put my foot in my mouth.
  12. I think we’ve hit a brick wall.
  13. You broke my heart.
  14. I feel that it’s all an exercise in futility.
  15. Where has all the time gone?
  16. I realize now that I’ve been barking up the wrong tree.
  17. It’s outlived its usefulness.
  18. Ain’t that a crying shame?

Couple discussing ending a relationship

In-negative / Disappointment
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Out-neutral / Negotiating url

Let’s work things out-3

  1. It’s easy to have 20-20 vision about things that happened in the past.
  2. We both have to admit that neither one of us saw it coming.
  3. There are no guarantees.
  4. Let’s get it out in the open.
  5. So what’s the bottom line?
  6. Now let’s get things out in the open.
  7. We both want the same thing.
  8. Let’s have the whole story out in the open.
  9. I’ll be glad to answer any questions you might have.
  10. Take all the time in the world.
  11. It doesn’t have to be that way.
  12. If that’s all right with you.
  13. Does it really matter?
  14. I’ll give it a try.

Let’s work things out-3

Out-neutral / Negotiating
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In-neutral / Caution url

Telling someone a secret

  1. The less said about it the better.
  2. Don’t breathe a word of it.
  3. I was sworn to secrecy.
  4. Mum’s the word.
  5. This could be something that I might come to regret.
  6. This might be against my better judgement.
  7. I have to ask myself, why am I doing this?

Telling someone a secret

In-neutral / Caution
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In-negative / Doubt url

To friend who claims he knows how to win the lottery

  1. The chances of that happening are pretty close to zero.
  2. How do you figure that?
  3. You don’t say?
  4. Don’t count on it.
  5. You can’t mean that.
  6. It doesn’t work that way.
  7. That’s what they all say.
  8. How can you be so cock-sure of yourself?
  9. It’s all in your head.
  10. It’s not very likely to happen that way.
  11. It’s about time you started being realistic.
  12. Wake up and smell the coffee.

To friend who claims he knows how to win the lottery

In-negative / Doubt