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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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NerrSnerr · 01/11/2015 15:40

I always thought it was thing so I have learnt something new! I happy to accept that I'm stupid!

StarkyTheDirewolf · 01/11/2015 15:39

I always thought it was "another thing coming" the other thing usually being an argument, or a crack in the chops. Now both words just look like wrongness.

ThroughThickAndThin01 · 01/11/2015 15:37

It's so obviously think!

"If you think I'm doing the gardening, you've got another think coming"

How can it possibly be thing?? Cmon people, don't be stoopid.

GnocchiGnocchiWhosThere · 01/11/2015 15:37

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ConferencePear · 01/11/2015 15:37

It's think how can anyone think it's thing.

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MrsSchadenfreude · 01/11/2015 15:36

Think, definitely. Not thing.

blankblink · 01/11/2015 15:34

It's think.

Thing makes no sense in context.

ThroughThickAndThin01 · 01/11/2015 15:34

It's think.

IvyWall · 01/11/2015 15:34

My current favourite pet hate is people using "free reign" instead of "free rein" It's seen a lot on here.

It's REIN, people !

OnlyLovers · 01/11/2015 15:33

It's think. What's the other 'thing' you all think he has coming? Confused

The tooth-comb thing REALLY winds me up too!

Hepzibar · 01/11/2015 15:33

Think here too. It was one of my DM's favourite phrases when I was growing up.

Come to think about it - she still uses it!

Never heard anyone say 'thing'. We talk proper here in Rochdale Smile

TrashPanda · 01/11/2015 15:33

Both thing and think now look and sound like total nonsense words!

ipsos · 01/11/2015 15:32

Definitely "thing". Sorry.

Enjoy your weeding.

HarrietVane99 · 01/11/2015 15:32

Think. I never heard 'thing' until I saw people using on the 'net.

People saying 'think' doesn't make sense, don't you ever say you'll 'have a think' about something?

PunkrockerGirl · 01/11/2015 15:32

Definitely think. Thing makes no sense whatsoever.

ptumbi · 01/11/2015 15:30

My Czech friend used to say 'another thing coming' and I thought it was charming (but wrong, obvs). She also says she would like 'a piece of quiet' instead of Peace and Quiet Grin

I also hate it when ordinary sayings get mangled up - like people will say ' a fine tooth-comb', when it is actually 'a fine-toothed comb' . No such thing as a tooth-comb.

TheSilveryPussycat · 01/11/2015 15:30

Yes it's think.

The one that annoys me the most is "off your own back" instead of "off your own bat."

mercifulTehlu · 01/11/2015 15:28

Wtf? Of course it's 'think'! As in 'you can think again'! How on earth would 'thing' make any sense?

MotherOfFlagons · 01/11/2015 15:26

What??!! It's 'think'!

GruntledOne · 01/11/2015 15:26

Certainly "think". I suspect people commenting at the beginning of this thread and saying "thing" were jumping on what they thought was a bandwagon.

ImperialBlether · 01/11/2015 15:26

It's 'think.' It's the same as saying 'You need to think again.'

cdtaylornats · 01/11/2015 15:26

www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2014/nov/18/mind-your-language-another-think

Its think - it makes sense, its what I say and the Guardian agrees

FunkyPeacock · 01/11/2015 15:25

I've always said 'another thing coming' but no idea what is right

Neither make any logical sense!

emotionsecho · 01/11/2015 15:25

Someone has explained that the 'think' is a play on words Dick