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Has DH got another think coming or have I got another thing coming???

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NotMyRealName2015 · 01/11/2015 14:56

I’ll clarify Blush

DH and I were having a light hearted debate about who was going to sort the garden out this afternoon (there are weeds growing out of weeds, and we have guests coming this week)
DH said that if I thought he was doing it today ‘I had another thing coming’.

I pointed out the phrase was ‘another think coming’ and that he should now go and do the garden as punishment for his failure. Grin
However, he is insisting I am wrong and that ‘thing’ is the right word. I say that doesn’t even make sense! What ‘thing’ is coming?? He just says ‘English doesn’t always make sense.’ (Not technically his first language but he has a British parent so has always been bilingual and is completely fluent)

MN jury needed. Who is correct??
Loser will obviously be doing the garden. Winner will sit down with coffee and biscuits, looking smug and saying 'you've missed a bit.'

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OTheHugeManatee · 01/11/2015 16:12

He's wrong. You're right. It's 'think' not 'thing'.

Quite a nice eggcorn though.

CactusAnnie · 01/11/2015 16:12

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crabbiearses · 01/11/2015 16:12

its another think, its commonly mistaken and said as another thing, you win.

Pranmasghost · 01/11/2015 16:11

Of course it is 'think'. 'Thing' is just so wrong...if you think that you have another think coming. No question at all.

StrawberryTeaLeaf · 01/11/2015 16:11

This reminds me of people saying "all intensive purposes" instead of "all intents and purposes" Angry

Don't people realise that the words they are speaking make no sense? Confused

FattyNinjaOwl · 01/11/2015 16:10

Nope they definitely say thing. They don't sound similar to me at all Confused

Maybe it is regional starky I've just asked DP and he says he's only ever heard thing too.

annandale · 01/11/2015 16:10

Don't tell me everyone's started saying 'Thing on' instead of 'think on' because it would be about the same and equally wrong.

ThroughThickAndThin01 · 01/11/2015 16:08

I think it's more likely you're mishearing everyone as they sound so similar when spoken and you are expecting everyone to say 'thing' rather than everyone you know is getting it wrong fatty.

StarkyTheDirewolf · 01/11/2015 16:07

I'm going to ask my family at teatime, see if I can get a consensus there. Maybe it's regional.

squoosh · 01/11/2015 16:07

I was surprised by all the firm 'thing'ers at the start of the thread too.

annandale · 01/11/2015 16:07

Think.

Go and help in the garden nowSmile having comprehensively won

Grapejuicerocks · 01/11/2015 16:06

I clicked on this thinking this'll be a short thread with everybody saying the op was right. My gob was well and truly smacked when all the first posts said that DH was right.

Of course it is think.

StarkyTheDirewolf · 01/11/2015 16:06

If you think I've forgotten about that ten quid you owe me, you've got another think coming another thing coming, the thing being, I haven't forgotten and I'm not going to let you forget.

f you think you can just leave your dirty boots there and not pick them up, you've got another think coming another thing coming. The thing being, you're going to shift those boots or I'll throw them out.

Weird, I agree with fatty I've always used thing and shall continue to, never occurred to me that it would be think.

FattyNinjaOwl · 01/11/2015 16:05

But cactus I'm using the expressions in the same way everyone I know IRL uses them. As I said fair enough if I'm wrong, it just means everyone else I've ever met is wrong. I was just trying to explain how thing can make sense to people.

CactusAnnie · 01/11/2015 16:05

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ladygracie · 01/11/2015 16:05

Think. Definitely think. I was also horrified when I read the first few replies. You are correct.

StrawberryTeaLeaf · 01/11/2015 16:05

Think.

CactusAnnie · 01/11/2015 16:03

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squoosh · 01/11/2015 16:03

And it's dull as DITCHWATER, not dishwater.

Will stop preempting arguments now.

FattyNinjaOwl · 01/11/2015 16:01

But in that context cactus I just say think again...

Liveinthepresent · 01/11/2015 16:01

I was stunned when I saw the first few replies saying it was thing ! Thank goodness I was right in my lifelong belief it is THINK .

CactusAnnie · 01/11/2015 16:00

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Oblique27 · 01/11/2015 16:00

.?? Above was supposed to be Smile why are emojis so complicated on MN?

squoosh · 01/11/2015 16:00

And it's NINETEEN to the dozen. Not ninety.

OnlyLovers · 01/11/2015 16:00

Slight x-post, Arfarfanarf, and also, you've articulated it all much better than I've managed to. [grin