You have another ________ coming

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  • jamielr84
    jamielr84 Posts: 545
    Me thinks it's thing.
  • hamncheese67
    hamncheese67 Posts: 1,715 Member
    They are both correct. This is from Wikipedia (read the last line):

    "You've Got Another Thing Comin'" is a song by British heavy metal band Judas Priest. It was originally released on their 1982 album Screaming for Vengeance and released as a single later that year. In May 2006, VH1 ranked it fifth on their list of the 40 Greatest Metal Songs.

    The song reached #67 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts, making it Judas Priest's only charting song in the United States.

    The song's title is an eggcorn idiom, in use since at least 1919, from the original expression, "You've got another think coming," published as early as 1898.

    Well that's just sad. Screaming for Vengeance is a better song IMHO.

    And anything off British Steel is far superior.

    *sigh*

    nope - it's Turbo Lover or nothing! :smokin:

    My favorite is one of their older songs - Victim of Changes. Epic.
  • mommared53
    mommared53 Posts: 9,543 Member
    Is it.....

    piss and vigor

    or

    piss and vinegar

    (sigh) vinegar.
  • k2quiere
    k2quiere Posts: 4,151 Member
    Are you ****ing kidding me??? The blank is THING, and if I thought this was worthy of a real conversation, I'd explain to you why "think" makes no ****ing sense whatsoever!
  • darbym7
    darbym7 Posts: 61
    ive always said 'you have another THING coming' ive never heard anyone use think
  • mommared53
    mommared53 Posts: 9,543 Member
    Ok, I'll present a scenario phrased two different ways..

    Scenario 1. Child says, "I think I will go to the park before dinner." Parent says, "If you think you're going to the park before dinner, you've got another think coming."

    Scenario 2. Child says, I think I will go to the park before dinner." Parent says, "You need to think again, because you're not going to the park before dinner."

    It's the same meaning but just said differently. How in the world does that not make sense? How in the world does saying "You need to thing again." make sense? :huh:
  • BondBomb
    BondBomb Posts: 1,781 Member
    Its funny how annoyed people are getting.
    I always assumed it was 'thing'. But now that I have googled it I think it's think.

    The one that annoys me...
    "I could care less" - that means you care.
  • k2quiere
    k2quiere Posts: 4,151 Member
    Ok, I'll present a scenario phrased two different ways..

    Scenario 1. Child says, "I think I will go to the park before dinner." Parent says, "If you think you're going to the park before dinner, you've got another think coming."

    Scenario 2. Child says, I think I will go to the park before dinner." Parent says, "You need to think again, because you're not going to the park before dinner."

    It's the same meaning but just said differently. How in the world does that not make sense? How in the world does saying "You need to thing again." make sense? :huh:

    In Scenario 1, Mom was just being snarky and playing with the word. You cannot HAVE another think because it is a verb. In order to have another of something it has to be a noun. You can have another thought and/or another thing, but you cannot have another think. Telling someone to think again may have the same implied meaning, but it is not the same thinK.
  • sdwelk11
    sdwelk11 Posts: 825
    now that my head has stopped spinning!!



    thing... always heard it as "thing"
  • catwrangler
    catwrangler Posts: 918 Member
    I've got another 700 calories coming <<<<<<looking forward to Friday night supper.

    or is it Friday night DINNER? :wink:
  • chyloet
    chyloet Posts: 196 Member
    If you *think* that's the phrase ... you've got another *thing* coming :wink:
  • servilia
    servilia Posts: 3,452 Member
    It's "thing"! "Think" isn't a noun plus I've always heard it pronounced with a "g".
  • mommared53
    mommared53 Posts: 9,543 Member
    Ok, I'll present a scenario phrased two different ways..

    Scenario 1. Child says, "I think I will go to the park before dinner." Parent says, "If you think you're going to the park before dinner, you've got another think coming."

    Scenario 2. Child says, I think I will go to the park before dinner." Parent says, "You need to think again, because you're not going to the park before dinner."

    It's the same meaning but just said differently. How in the world does that not make sense? How in the world does saying "You need to thing again." make sense? :huh:

    In Scenario 1, Mom was just being snarky and playing with the word. You cannot HAVE another think because it is a verb. In order to have another of something it has to be a noun. You can have another thought and/or another thing, but you cannot have another think. Telling someone to think again may have the same implied meaning, but it is not the same thinK.

    It may be bad grammar but it's still "you've got another think coming." The first part of the sentence states "if you think", therefore, saying "you've got another think coming" would be the same as saying "you need to think again" or "you need to rethink" about going to the park.
  • sunkisses
    sunkisses Posts: 2,365 Member
    Its funny how annoyed people are getting.
    I always assumed it was 'thing'. But now that I have googled it I think it's think.

    The one that annoys me...
    "I could care less" - that means you care.

    I believe this helps as a visual for people who still don't get it. :laugh:
    caring.png
  • mommared53
    mommared53 Posts: 9,543 Member
    Its funny how annoyed people are getting.
    I always assumed it was 'thing'. But now that I have googled it I think it's think.

    The one that annoys me...
    "I could care less" - that means you care.

    I believe this helps as a visual for people who still don't get it. :laugh:
    caring.png

    Excellent!
  • SueInAz
    SueInAz Posts: 6,592 Member
    Its funny how annoyed people are getting.
    I always assumed it was 'thing'. But now that I have googled it I think it's think.

    The one that annoys me...
    "I could care less" - that means you care.

    I believe this helps as a visual for people who still don't get it. :laugh:
    caring.png
    It's funny how people completely change the meaning of sentence or phrase because they're lazy with pronunciation.
  • cobracars
    cobracars Posts: 949 Member
    How about "You've got a tough road to hoe" vs "You've got a tough row to hoe"

    Regardless of which you choose, irregardless is not a word. :bigsmile:
  • paul_draper
    paul_draper Posts: 91 Member
    fteale. I am not an idiot. I have been saying THINK all my life and so did my family before me. Judas Priest are hardly the best scholars of English. It's one thing saying it makes no sense, it's entirely another to insult those whose opinions differ.
  • Pebble321
    Pebble321 Posts: 6,423 Member
    Definitely "think".
  • sryan8408
    sryan8408 Posts: 244
    The funniest part is that we are both right. "You've got another think coming" is an idiom and an intentional gramatical joke originated in the 1919s and "You've got another thing coming." is the grammatical way of saying the sentence and was a Judas Priest song :). I will never say "think though." In the midwest we use thing.
  • Deathwithab
    Deathwithab Posts: 462 Member
    its for sure "thing"

    , think just sounds mental to be used in that sentance
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