You have another ________ coming

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  • smiley01x
    smiley01x Posts: 93 Member
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    You have another thing coming. Think doesn't make any sense. You're threatening to punish them. Thats the "thing"

    i agree with this!
  • quizzer
    quizzer Posts: 17
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    Think, definitely. As in you're going to have to think again about your choice.
  • CaptainGordo
    CaptainGordo Posts: 4,437 Member
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    My friends and I have a way to resolve disputes like this. Try this link...

    http://tinyurl.com/6z262tw
  • _beachgirl_
    _beachgirl_ Posts: 3,865 Member
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    Thing. True story.
  • CaWaterBug8
    CaWaterBug8 Posts: 1,040 Member
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    THINK. It simply means 'you are wrong, think again'. 'Thing' doen't make sense - what is the thing that is coming?


    You couldn't handle the thing coming.
  • amymeenieminymo
    amymeenieminymo Posts: 2,394 Member
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    You have another thing coming. Think doesn't make any sense. You're threatening to punish them. Thats the "thing"

    But what does the "another" refer to? If the thing is referencing a punishment, why not say "you've got "a thing coming" or "something coming"?
  • trybefan
    trybefan Posts: 488 Member
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    And, "if you think I will let it go, you're mad, you gotta another thing coming!"

    Sorry, I am not debating, just posting JP lyrics
  • LuckyLeprechaun
    LuckyLeprechaun Posts: 6,296 Member
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    THINK. It simply means 'you are wrong, think again'. 'Thing' doen't make sense - what is the thing that is coming?

    an *kitten*-whooping.

    It's THING.
  • fteale
    fteale Posts: 5,310 Member
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    It's thing. It just is. Think is stupid, and makes no sense.
  • KnottyJen
    KnottyJen Posts: 1,070 Member
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    Pretty sure I just lost a ****ton of brain cells reading OP's post..... And if you think I'm kidding, you have another effing THING coming..........
  • sarahp86
    sarahp86 Posts: 692 Member
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    thing!
  • ohwhataday
    ohwhataday Posts: 1,398 Member
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    Well this is nothing like what I thought it was going to be about when I read the title. *pout*

    rofl.
  • RobynC79
    RobynC79 Posts: 331 Member
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    Seems to be a regional thing, but this (a good source) would indicate 'think'. I've always heard it said that way. We grew up speaking British English. I'm curious to know where the blocks of thought are, geographically, on 'thing' vs. 'think'

    http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/thing.html
  • fteale
    fteale Posts: 5,310 Member
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    It's a British phrase, not an American one and it's definitely another THINK coming. You think wrongly so you need to think again. How can you have ANOTHER thing coming when there wasn't a first thing?

    It IS a British phrase, and it is THING. Only idiots say think. Probably the same people who pronounce something "sump think" and think H has an h at the start of it.
  • ohwhataday
    ohwhataday Posts: 1,398 Member
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    p.s. it's You've GOT another thing coming.... the song anyway.
  • ajfranzen77
    ajfranzen77 Posts: 118
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    I'm going with THING, that's what I was always told! lol
  • janet_pratt
    janet_pratt Posts: 747 Member
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    I never use the phrase, but my husband always says "think" but he also thinks driver's license is plural. As in, "I've had my driver's license for 30 years. I got them when I was 16," So what does he know? Yeah, beats me, too.
  • LuckyLeprechaun
    LuckyLeprechaun Posts: 6,296 Member
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    I guess I took it for granite that everyone knew that.


    :noway:

    (irony intended)
  • Gigi_licious
    Gigi_licious Posts: 1,185 Member
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    I'm in Texas, here both words are wrong. Its "yew gottanuthatheen cumin"

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