To ask for your misheard common sayings?

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My husband thinks I am ridiculous that I always thought the saying "another think coming" was "another thing coming"

It's taken me 38 years to realise this and I now feel rather silly.

I didn't realise until a few days ago due to a post on here that it's 'raised hackles'. I thought it was 'heckles'.

It wasn't until I was reading a book last year that I realised I'd been saying "on tenterhooks" wrong for years.

Another think coming? Really? News to me, too!

Both are now accepted as used in British language.
'Another think' needs to have a previous statement such as 'if she thinks ' 'if she thinks .... she has another think coming'

Rest bite seems to have become an alternative for respite.

"The proof is in the pudding" drives me mad.

My DH firmly maintains that when someone is annoyed they "get their gander up" 🤣

He will not be told it's "dander"

Every time I hear this I imagine some murder mystery where the proof that will find the murderer is hidden in the pudding.

What huh it is another thing coming where did you get think from lol

Thank you. I have had this argument many times in the past with someone who used to say this a lot!

Well I can see some have hit the hammer on the head with the nail, nothing pacific - just waiting for folks to get their just desserts.

The full phrase is, as a previous poster said, "if you think... you've got another think coming".
"another thing coming" makes zero sense in this context

You do know the saying another thing coming is the saying right??? Long before they also added another think coming both meanings are pretty much the exact same...lol try Google all there for you to see

Um why?

I don't say it but I understand it...

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The saying is actually "The proof of the pudding is in the eating"

'The proof of the pudding is in the eating'
ie something may appear satisfactory, but ultimately disappoint - you won't know until you've tasted it.

Um, what? "another thing coming" doesn't make sense as a standalone saying by itself. It's just a case of people (Americans, mainly) mishearing 'think'.

The fact that enough people have got it wrong for it to become some kind of 'accepted variation' doesn't make it correct.

The only time I've heard it used was as a child, usually when fighting with sibling or whinging. It was always "pack that in or you've go another thing coming" with the "other thing" being that you were going to be hit, in a similar vain to "I'll give you something to cry about".

I had thought it was changed to think more recently when threatening violence stopped being socially acceptable.

I would of enjoyed my expresso more had I not honed in on a cure for my insomnia and made a 360 degree change in my sleeping habits. I couldn't go to the school principle in good conscious - so I saw his number too instead. For all intensive purposes, the statue of limitations should apply.

But they don't mean the same thing at all.

The saying has always been "if you think ... (whatever you think) then you have another think coming."

Everyone says the H in NHS correctly, yet somehow many forget how to say it in HR department, H&M** etc.

You are literally asking folks to drop their haitches?

Haha. I use NHS to prove my point about the correct pronunciation of H.

@MistyGreenAndBlue Me too!!

"Off your own back" instead of "off your own bat"

The phrase comes from cricket and scoring runs after having batted oneself. I only know that because my lovely grandpa was a cricket fan - other than Antonia Forest's The Cricket Term my interest in cricket is an unbroken duck.