Total Phrases- 4535
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In-positive / Confidence url

Promise that will be on time

  1. I give you my word.
  2. We’re on our way.
  3. I will, I promise.
  4. I’ll see to that.
  5. You can bet on it.
  6. You have nothing to worry about.
  7. Take my word for it.
  8. It’s nothing I can’t handle.
  9. There’s no question about it.

Promise that will be on time

In-positive / Confidence
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In-negative / Confusion url

Trying to remember why you made a certain decision last year

  1. I can’t explain it.
  2. I’m not so sure.
  3. I don’t know what to say about it.
  4. I’m not sure exactly.
  5. I haven’t the slightest idea.
  6. I can’t put my finger on it.
  7. I don’t have a clue.
  8. I don’t remember off the top of my head.
  9. Your guess is a good as mine.
  10. That’s the thing I don’t understand.
  11. How can I be sure?

Trying to remember why you made a certain decision last year

In-negative / Confusion
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Out-positive / Encouragement url

For a fellow worker who is hesitant to present a new idea to the boss

  1. There’s nothing to be afraid of.
  2. You have nothing to worry about.
  3. Don’t sell yourself short.
  4. What’s holding you back?
  5. What could go wrong?
  6. Your fears are your worst enemy.
  7. I'm sure they're going to appreciate your trying.
  8. You have nothing to lose, and everything to gain.
  9. At the very worst, they won't use your idea, but it’s certainly not going to hurt anything.
  10. What's the downside?
  11. Grab the brass ring.
  12. Maybe they’ll take you up on it.
  13. What’s the worst case scenario?
  14. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
  15. No pain, no gain.
  16. Speak up and make yourself heard.
  17. You don’t have to sell yourself to me, screw up your courage and say what you have to say to the powers that be.
  18. Just remind yourself that speaking up is not a bad choice, mind you.
  19. Don’t worry, they’ll understand.
  20. They’re on the up and up, and they’re not going to pull any punches.
  21. You need to stand up for yourself.
  22. I think you should jump at the opportunity.
  23. It never hurts to ask.

For a fellow worker who is hesitant to present a new idea to the boss

Out-positive / Encouragement
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Out-neutral / Advice url

Perspective-2

  1. You got to remember that.
  2. Truth is stranger than fiction.
  3. Things are not always what they seem.
  4. The whole is sometimes bigger than the sum of its parts.
  5. Take stock of your future.
  6. Try to put yourself in his shoes.
  7. Don’t take things for granted.
  8. Saying and doing are entirely different things.
  9. Live each day as if it were the last.
  10. Today is all you have.
  11. You can’t generalize, every situation is different.

Perspective-2

Out-neutral / Advice
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Out-negative / Anger url

I will stop you-1

  1. This means war.
  2. I have a bone to pick with you.
  3. I’ll get even with you, and even though you’re sitting pretty right now, I think in the long run you are going to regret what you did.
  4. Wait till I get my hands on you.
  5. I want to have it out with you.
  6. I’ll pay you back for this.
  7. Let’s settle this once and for all.
  8. Don’t mess with me.
  9. Don’t start up with me.
  10. If you think you’re going to get away with that, you’ve got another guess coming.
  11. Don’t you dare play your stupid, silly games with me.
  12. You’re not going to get away with it.

I will stop you-1

Out-negative / Anger
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Out-positive / Encouragement url

For a friend who is recovering from an illness

  1. Now that’s more like it.
  2. I’m glad to see that you’re doing alright.
  3. Be patient with your recovery.
  4. Rome wasn’t built in a day.
  5. You don’t look any worse for wear or tear.
  6. You’re near and dear to our hearts.
  7. You’re doing what you can, and that’s all that there is to it.
  8. The way you’re handing this challenging situation is to your credit.
  9. It'll be over before you know it.

For a friend who is recovering from an illness

Out-positive / Encouragement
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In-positive / Realizing url

The day after a stock market crash

  1. I may not understand all the details, but I get the general idea and see the big picture.
  2. I could see it coming a mile away.
  3. It stands to reason.
  4. By process of elimination it’s the only answer that makes sense.
  5. So there you have it.
  6. I had a hunch we were getting very close to the end.
  7. We’ve been all through this before, and it’s deja-vu all over again.
  8. By the time it dawned on us, it was too late.
  9. It looks like we’re going to have to start from scratch.
  10. These things just sneak up on you.
  11. I see this as a wakeup call.
  12. This really taught me a lesson that I won’t quickly forget.
  13. I'm going to have to re-examine and think through all of my assumptions.
  14. It's very sobering.
  15. It happened when I least suspected it.
  16. I wonder why I didn't see that coming.
  17. I turned a blind eye to all the warning signals.

The day after a stock market crash

In-positive / Realizing
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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 / Observation url

General-2

  1. Now you see it now you don’t.
  2. Who knows what evil lurk in the minds of men?
  3. One thing leads to another.
  4. It’s not all fun and games.
  5. The tree grows as the twig is bent.
  6. It’s a drop in the bucket.
  7. It’s happened once and it will happen again.
  8. It’s not always so cut and dry.
  9. You can’t live with them and you can’t live without them.
  10. Some people never learn.

General-2

Out-neutral / Observation
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In-negative / Explaining url

Hitting the neighbor's dog with a car

  1. It took me completely by surprise.
  2. It came out of the blue.
  3. It really threw me for a loop.
  4. I take full responsibility for it.
  5. The experience has shaken me to the core.
  6. I had to make a split second decision.
  7. I had to save my own skin.
  8. It scared me half to death.
  9. It really shook me up.
  10. It’s a very unusual occurrence.
  11. How do you think I feel?
  12. Do you think I did it on purpose?
  13. I don’t know what to say.
  14. When push comes to shove, it’s not something I could have prevented.
  15. It was a freak accident.
  16. It happened in a blink of an eye.
  17. It sent shivers up my spine.

Hitting the neighbor's dog with a car

In-negative / Explaining
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In-negative / Confusion url

Waking up after a deep sleep.

  1. I fell into a deep sleep, and when I woke up I was so disoriented that for a short while I couldn’t remember where I was.
  2. My mind is going in ten different directions.
  3. I don’t know what to make of it.
  4. What time is it?
  5. How did I get here?
  6. I could use a breath of fresh air.
  7. What’s going on here?
  8. I don’t have the bandwidth to deal with it right now.
  9. I don’t feel like myself.
  10. I’m so tired, I can hardly see straight.

Waking up after a deep sleep.

In-negative / Confusion
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Out-negative / Anger url

Go away

  1. Take a hike.
  2. Bug-off.
  3. Go fly a kite!
  4. I don’t ever want to see you again.
  5. What I’d like is some privacy.
  6. Get out of here, and I don’t ever want to set my eyes on you again.
  7. Don’t ever show your face here again.
  8. Get off my back.
  9. I’m warning you.

Go away

Out-negative / Anger