Total Phrases- 4535
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Out-neutral / Advice url

Caution-3

  1. We’ve got to lay low for a while until the whole things blows over.
  2. Play your cards close to your vest.
  3. It’ll come back to haunt you.
  4. My advice is to keep your eye on it.
  5. You might regret it for the rest of your life.
  6. You’re fighting a loosing battle.
  7. Take everything they say with a grain of salt.
  8. Your life may depend on it.
  9. I have a feeling that you might be starting off on the wrong foot.
  10. Handle it with kid gloves.
  11. The bigger they are the harder they fall.
  12. You really have to watch out for things like that.
  13. Steer clear of it.
  14. You’re skating on thin ice.
  15. Don’t tell me I didn’t warn you.
  16. The odds are against you.
  17. There are no guarantees.
  18. It will get you when you least expect it.
  19. He’s not playing with a full deck.
  20. That defeats the whole purpose.
  21. It's unpredictable, and it’s a close call, going down to the wire, and we might not have a clear indication of where it's heading until the last minute - and then it might be too late to change course to salvage the situation.

Caution-3

Out-neutral / Advice
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Out-negative / Anger url

Stop what you are doing-2

  1. Are you trying to start up with me?
  2. You wouldn’t dare.
  3. Let that be a warning to you.
  4. There’s no excuse for that.
  5. Who do you think I am?
  6. Hold your horses.
  7. Don’t you dare do any such thing.
  8. Haven’t you done enough harm already?
  9. Don’t make a scene.
  10. Let’s drop the subject!
  11. Wait just a cotton picking minute.
  12. Where do you think you’re going?
  13. You just can’t help yourself, can you?
  14. Enough of that.
  15. OK, enough of this for now.

Stop what you are doing-2

Out-negative / Anger
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In-neutral / Acceptance url

Breaking up with someone

  1. It’s gone with the wind.
  2. It doesn’t matter.
  3. That’s the way it is.
  4. It makes good sense.
  5. Different strokes for different folks.
  6. I’ll just have to learn to live with it.
  7. It was nice while it lasted.
  8. It’s over once and for all.
  9. It’s over and done with.
  10. It’s all the same to me.
  11. It’s a little depressing, but what can I do?
  12. You take the good with the bad.
  13. To each his own.
  14. Her heart is in the right place.
  15. That’s what makes the world go round.
  16. It takes all kinds.
  17. I guess I got more out of it than I thought I had.
  18. All good things much come to an end.
  19. So much for that.
  20. I'm haunted by the fact that perhaps it didn't have to be this way, but it doesn't look like there's not much I can do about it at this point.
  21. It's a fait accompli.

Breaking up with someone

In-neutral / Acceptance
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In-negative / Explaining url

Waking up after being drunk

  1. When I woke up I was so disoriented that at first I couldn’t remember where I was.
  2. I don’t know what to tell you.
  3. I’m wiped out.
  4. My head is pounding.
  5. I feel totally depleted.
  6. I went into a tailspin.
  7. I’m going to take a short walk outside just to clear my head.
  8. I was caught red-handed.
  9. I’ve been caught with my hand in the cookie jar.
  10. The bottom line is that I just couldn’t help it.
  11. Don’t remind me.
  12. I feel like I’ve been dragging myself around all day.
  13. I need more shut-eye.
  14. It knocked the wind knocked out of me.

Waking up after being drunk

In-negative / Explaining
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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-neutral / Acceptance url

Planting a tree

  1. It’s just a question of time.
  2. We’ll see results in no time at all.
  3. All good things take time.
  4. It’ll come in time.
  5. It will do for a start.
  6. That’s all that’s necessary.
  7. I’ll do my part and let nature take its course.
  8. Before you know it.

Planting a tree

In-neutral / Acceptance
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Out-positive / Encouragement url

For a friend who invested in a stock that did well and then crashed

  1. It wasn’t the worst thing in the world.
  2. You can cope with it.
  3. You can turn it into a growth and learning experience.
  4. You can rest assured that if I were in your shoes, I would have done exactly what you did.
  5. It certainly started off with the bang.
  6. Don’t worry, hang on tight, it’s going to be all right.
  7. You’re acting as cool as a cucumber.
  8. I guess whatever goes up, must come down.

For a friend who invested in a stock that did well and then crashed

Out-positive / Encouragement
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In-neutral / Acceptance url

Losing an election

  1. I guess I had it coming to me.
  2. It’s just wasn’t in the cards.
  3. You win some, you loose some.
  4. I guess I’ll just have to learn to live with it.
  5. I think I got the picture.
  6. That’s about the size of it.
  7. He was bound and determined to do it.
  8. He won, hands down.
  9. He’s a better man than I am.
  10. It’s was a forgone conclusion.
  11. The show’s over.
  12. That’s just the way it is.
  13. It was a missed opportunity.
  14. I had a feeling that would happen.

Losing an election

In-neutral / Acceptance
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Out-neutral / Negotiating url

You are wrong

  1. That’s where you’re wrong.
  2. I should think not.
  3. That’s out of the question.
  4. That’s not so.
  5. If you think I’m going to go along with you on that, you have another guess coming.
  6. You had your chance.
  7. You just wait and see.
  8. I wouldn’t be so sure of that.
  9. That doesn’t even come close.
  10. You’re sadly mistaken.
  11. You couldn’t fool me for a minute.
  12. You are way off base.
  13. Nothing could be further from the truth.
  14. That option is just not in the realm of possibility.
  15. That choice is just out of the question.

You are wrong

Out-neutral / Negotiating
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Out-negative / Anger url

You have gone too far

  1. I think you’ve gone just a little bit too far this time.
  2. You’re in big trouble.
  3. Are you threatening me?
  4. Now that was a cheap shot.
  5. You’re down right nasty.
  6. Aren’t you carrying this a bit too far?
  7. Who the heck do you think you are?
  8. Stop that hanky-panky.
  9. Don’t you have a shred of decency?
  10. Is nothing sacred anymore?
  11. How can anyone in his right mind say something like what you just said.

You have gone too far

Out-negative / Anger
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Out-positive / Encouragement url

For a friend who just published his first book

  1. That’s a positive start.
  2. What a great accomplishment!
  3. You’re on a roll.
  4. More power to you.
  5. Sock it to me.
  6. Your off and running.
  7. I’m glad that it worked out.
  8. You do what you do very well.
  9. You did much more than you realize.
  10. That’s a step in the right direction.
  11. You’re doing a great job.
  12. It turns out that you accomplished more than you even realized.

For a friend who just published his first book

Out-positive / Encouragement
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In-neutral / Acceptance url

Remembering the night the car broke down

  1. I would just as soon forget the whole thing.
  2. That’s ancient history.
  3. That’s the way the story goes.
  4. It’s water under the bridge.
  5. That’s water over the dam.
  6. You learn from experience.
  7. The best that I can say is that it could have ended up much worse.
  8. I’m thinking about it a lot.
  9. How soon we forget.
  10. How time flies

Remembering the night the car broke down

In-neutral / Acceptance