Total Phrases- 4535
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In-negative / Confusion url

Trying to understand current events

  1. Can you help me figure out what’s going on?
  2. I don’t know who to believe anymore.
  3. Frankly, none of this make sense.
  4. I’m totally baffled.
  5. I don’t have a clue about what is going on.
  6. I’m totally dumbfounded.
  7. It puzzles me.
  8. I don’t know what to make of it.
  9. What do you make of it?
  10. What does it all mean?
  11. How has it come to this?

Trying to understand current events

In-negative / Confusion
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Out-neutral / Advice url

Trust me

  1. I won’t steer you wrong.
  2. Please take my advice.
  3. I’ll know when the time is right.
  4. Heed what I am saying.
  5. Do as I say, not as I do.
  6. Take a tip from me.
  7. That’s a solemn promise.
  8. Now pay attention to what I’m trying to tell you, and I want your undivided attention.
  9. Mark my words that as sure as I’m standing here, what I’m saying is the honest truth.
  10. Just stick with me.

Trust me

Out-neutral / Advice
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Out-positive / Friendship url

Saying hello-2

  1. What have you been doing with yourself lately?
  2. To what do we owe the honor of your visit?
  3. I was just this minute thinking of you.
  4. I have not stopped thinking about you.
  5. I was just thinking about you.
  6. How’s it going?
  7. Make yourself at home.
  8. Let’s make up for lost time.
  9. Top of the day to you.
  10. To what do we owe this honor?
  11. So, we finally meet.
  12. It's great seeing you again.

Saying hello-2

Out-positive / Friendship
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Out-negative / Annoyed url

You are wrong-2

  1. This is highway robbery.
  2. I think you owe me an apology.
  3. I think what you are doing stinks.
  4. You’ve got it backwards.
  5. You’ve got some nerve.
  6. How could you even think of doing this?
  7. There’s no excuse for it.
  8. That was uncalled for.
  9. I ought to pity you.
  10. That was uncalled for!
  11. You don’t know what you’re talking about.

You are wrong-2

Out-negative / Annoyed
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Out-positive / Encouragement url

To a friend going on a much needed vacation

  1. It will do you a world of good.
  2. It’s for your own good.
  3. You’ll feel like a new man.
  4. You’re more full of vim and vigor than most people half you age.
  5. It’s an opportunity of a lifetime.
  6. It's a step in the right direction.

To a friend going on a much needed vacation

Out-positive / Encouragement
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In-negative / Doubt url

Someone offers you original painting for 1/10th the price

  1. I suspect that you have something up in your sleeve.
  2. Give me a break!
  3. You must be kidding me.
  4. What’s the catch?
  5. I’ve heard that song and dance story before.
  6. Do you mean to tell me that you’re up to your old tricks again?
  7. Are you trying to pull a fast one?
  8. That sounds too good to be true.
  9. What do you take me for?

Someone offers you original painting for 1/10th the price

In-negative / Doubt
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Out-positive / Agreement url

I followed your advice, and told her that I was sorry, and that ended the argument

  1. That’s just what I said.
  2. That’s what I figured.
  3. I know that only all too well from personal experience.
  4. I knew you’d understand.
  5. That’s more like it.
  6. No harm done.
  7. That was a step in the right direction.
  8. I think that made the most sense.
  9. I’m glad you gave it a try.
  10. That is very cool.
  11. I'm happy that it all worked out for the best.
  12. Been there, done that.

I followed your advice, and told her that I was sorry, and that ended the argument

Out-positive / Agreement
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In-positive / Confidence url

Suggesting to a friend how to invest

  1. It’s worth a shot.
  2. Things will go as smooth as silk.
  3. It’s a step in the right direction.
  4. It’s a good start.
  5. You know anything is possible!
  6. I know a good thing when I see it.
  7. I know all about it.
  8. I know what’s best.
  9. That’s it in a nutshell.

Suggesting to a friend how to invest

In-positive / Confidence
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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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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
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In-negative / Desperation url

Losing a chunk of data from a laptop hard drive

  1. That will be the straw that breaks the camels back.
  2. I’ve taken about all that I can take.
  3. This is driving me so batty that I could scream.
  4. What rotten luck.
  5. I give up.
  6. I can’t bear to face it.
  7. Why me?
  8. Don’t even talk to me about it.
  9. It's not my day.

Losing a chunk of data from a laptop hard drive

In-negative / Desperation
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Out-neutral / Observation url

About Others – Neutral-2

  1. She’s covered from head to toe.
  2. You can’t begrudge him for it.
  3. She won’t take no for an answer.
  4. I can’t say I blame him.
  5. You don’t hold a candle to her.
  6. He’ll do it if he knows what’s good for him.
  7. He really did it this time.
  8. This isn’t like them.
  9. They’re as different as night and day.
  10. They haven’t exactly been beating down my door.
  11. It’s raining cats and dogs.

About Others – Neutral-2

Out-neutral / Observation