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Scenes of In-positive

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In-positive / Relief url

Getting a clean bill of health from the doctor after a major health concern

  1. When I saw the results, it was a sight for sore eyes.
  2. What a relief!
  3. I’m so grateful that it was only a false alarm We can breathe a sigh of relief.
  4. That’s what we’ve been waiting for.
  5. It took a bit of time, but it was certainly worth the wait.
  6. It was a blessedly short time before I heard the good news.
  7. I thank my lucky stars.

Getting a clean bill of health from the doctor after a major health concern

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In-positive / Surprise url

Learning that a friend is ill

  1. His illness came out of the blue.
  2. He’s never been sick a day in his life.
  3. I don’t know what to say.
  4. I didn’t expect that.
  5. It’s beyond comprehension.
  6. What brought this on?
  7. I still can’t believe it’s true.
  8. I’m in a state of denial.
  9. It came as a great shock.
  10. I found the news earth shattering.

Learning that a friend is ill

In-positive / Surprise
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In-positive / Surprise url

Your favorite team wins 10 games in a row

  1. It happens only once in a blue moon.
  2. If that don’t beat all.
  3. There are no words to describe it.
  4. Will wonders never cease?
  5. Lo and behold.
  6. My goodness.
  7. It’s a whole new ballgame.
  8. Heavens to Betsy.
  9. Can you imagine that?
  10. Do you dig it?

Your favorite team wins 10 games in a row

In-positive / Surprise
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In-positive / Surprise url

A friend leaves town without telling anyone

  1. He’s vanished into thin air.
  2. He suddenly disappeared off the face of the earth.
  3. It happened in a way that we least expected.
  4. I’m in a state of shock.
  5. You’ve got to be kidding me.
  6. I had a sneaking suspicion that this was going to happen.
  7. I would never have suspected that.
  8. Woah, I am shocked.

A friend leaves town without telling anyone

In-positive / Surprise
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In-positive / Confidence url

Traveling by car to a new destination

  1. It’s a hop, skip, and a jump away from here.
  2. It’s not that far as the crow flies.
  3. So far, so good.
  4. It’s clear sailing from here on in.
  5. It’s going to be smooth sailing from here on in.
  6. What could possibly go wrong?
  7. Now I wouldn’t let anything bad happen, would I?
  8. I know what I’m doing.
  9. I'm going to wing it.

Traveling by car to a new destination

In-positive / Confidence
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In-positive / Amazed url

General Amazement Situations

  1. I can’t believe how hot it is.
  2. Where is everybody?
  3. My goodness!
  4. Now that’s a good question.
  5. That must have cost you a pretty penny.
  6. He’s growing like a weed.
  7. The phone’s been ringing off the hook.
  8. Have I got a story to tell you!
  9. You don’t know the half of it.
  10. You’d never guess in a million years.
  11. It’s like he has eyes in the back of his head.
  12. Look at it come down, it’s raining cats and dogs.
  13. I can’t believe how cold it is.
  14. It boggles the mind just to imagine the possibilities.
  15. He’s the spitting image of him.
  16. What's your secret sauce?

General Amazement Situations

In-positive / Amazed
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In-positive / Confidence url

Handing in a task to boss ahead of schedule

  1. I’m on a roll.
  2. I’ve been as busy as a bee.
  3. I’ve gotten the hang of it.
  4. You ain’t seen nothing yet.
  5. In order to get this to happen, I had to jump through hoops.
  6. Sign, sealed and delivered.
  7. Well that takes care of that.
  8. What did I tell you?

Handing in a task to boss ahead of schedule

In-positive / Confidence
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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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In-positive / Confidence url

Looking for something

  1. Something will turn up.
  2. We’re on the right track.
  3. It was exactly where I thought it would be.
  4. Something’s going to turn up.
  5. If we’re patient and methodical, I’m sure this will have a happy ending.

Looking for something

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In-positive / Hope url

When your candidate is elected

  1. Maybe there’s hope for us yet.
  2. It could turn things around.
  3. Things are looking up.
  4. It’s the wave of the future.
  5. That’s a good sign.
  6. I hope to heaven that what you’re telling me is true.
  7. It took a long time to happen, but it was worth waiting for.
  8. At times we didn’t think it would be successful, but now it might be a dream come true.
  9. The best is yet to come.

When your candidate is elected

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In-positive / Relief url

Surviving after being lost in the desert for 3 days.

  1. I was on my last legs, and I didn’t think I could hold out much longer, when I was miraculously saved in the nick of time.
  2. I got through by the skin of my teeth.
  3. I don’t know how I did it.
  4. I got in just under the wire.
  5. At the end if was touch and go, and I was wondering if I was going to make it.
  6. Home, sweet, home.
  7. Things are finally getting back to normal.
  8. I was on my last legs.

Surviving after being lost in the desert for 3 days.

In-positive / Relief
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In-positive / Determination url

Head of a political party

  1. The reason most people do not accomplish more is that they do not attempt more.
  2. We still have a ways to go.
  3. The show must go on.
  4. We have our work cut out for us.
  5. We have an image to uphold.
  6. You have to cut through the red tape.
  7. It’s time to shift into high gear.
  8. My lips are sealed.
  9. There’s nothing that stick-to-itive-ness can’t accomplish.
  10. It’ll happen before you know it.
  11. You ain’t seen nothing yet.
  12. Greatness is within our reach.

Head of a political party

In-positive / Determination