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take all the time you need

phrase

A2CEFR level
15/100Rarity: common
TechnicalRegister

A reassuring phrase giving the patient permission to react at their own pace after distressing news.

There's no hurry at all — take all the time you need, and I'll stay with you.

Similar: there's no rush

Topic: Clinical consultation in Medical English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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