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.

JudgeJ · Today 09:17

Youse is a regional thing, mainly Liverpool area.

It's common in the Northeast, too.

Anyone mentioned 'step foot'? It's 'set foot'!

Yes! I see that one a lot!

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · Today 11:23

(What ‘tenter’ actually means IDK - must look it up.)

It was a kind of frame, used in weaving and the hooks were hung from the tenter, with the yarn then suspended from the hooks. I thought for a long time that they were the hooks used in fish smokehouses (they are too).

https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/tenterhook#:~:text=Tenters%20and%20tenterhooks%20were%20commonly,from%20tenterhooks%20on%20a%20tenter.

Long ago, a tenterhook was a special kind of hook that held drying cloth on a frame called a tenter. If someone is "on tenterhooks," it means they are in suspense — metaphorically hanging there, waiting for something.

alarmingly widespread usage of ‘Chester draws”, ‘rest bite’, ‘defiantly’ for ‘definitely’.
'Chester draws' and 'rest bite' have a certain charm, even though they suggest that the poster is either in on the joke or clueless. 'In tact' and 'high rate' are worrying.
Defiantly is probably an autocorrect of definatly.

'Councilling' pisses me off, as does 'unphased'.

My auntie used to say 'Long time, no seen'

@RenoDakota It isn't think, it IS thing

It really, really isn't. e.g. If you think I'm going to let you do that, you've got another think coming. i.e. think again! Not thing again! What kind of 'thing' is supposed to be coming?! It makes no sense whatsoever!

Agree to a certain extent, although again that's not what I was referring to, I was talking about the insistence that informal regional terms are incorrect.

Re your other examples, it's a tough one. I agree that people only know the correct spellings if they read them but I also think it's right that everyone has access to social media regardless of their level of education or literacy.

Rest bite as I've said I love, it makes perfect sense.

Chester draws sounds nothing like chest of drawers in my accent but they're very similar for others. Draw instead of drawer is a very common error, and if we can have a Welsh dresser and a Belfast sink then it's not unreasonable to think that a particular style of drawer (or draw!) would be named from Chester.

I don't like the judgement on these threads.

Can't see anything wrong with step foot, to be honest!
Can't remember which one I use though - will have to listen to myself the next time it comes up.

Actually, it's "fucksake". Besides, swears don't need to respect grammar. They just fucking is.

It’s a tautology — if you’re stepping, you’re doing it with your foot, so you are EITHER ‘setting foot’ or ‘stepping’. ‘Stepping foot’ is like saying you manually shook hands with someone.

@ColleenDonaghy , the threads, I think are meant to be fairly light-hearted, but however you word your post, you run a high risk of having your head bitten off. Earlier on this thread I posted something in agreement and was accused of arguing and being sarky, and on a separate post someone misread my thread, suggesting I'd said the opposite of what I had posted.

Windsor chairs & chesterfield sofas too.

@Shade17 , @UnctuousUnicorns , 4foxache youse 2! Just fecking stop arguin'

Well as a child over 60 years ago the phrase was "another think coming". Thing makes no sense whatsoever

A friend of mine says ‘lost somewhere in the ethos’ when she means ‘somewhere in the ether’ it drives me mad but it’s gone on too long for me to say anything now!! Am so grateful for this thread where I can vent my annoyance at this 🤣

well yes, obviously, I've never heard anyone say the phrase (either way) without the qualifier first??? Nobody would just say randomly, in response to, say,
'Are you coming for a walk.'
'You've got another think/thing coming'
...it makes no sense at all without first saying 'If you think I'm [going out in this weather].....'

also, surely the same would apply to 'thing' - which is why it's not right (even if it has become accepted) because you haven't made any reference to a first thing in order to have a second.

I remember a huge bun fight about this on MN years ago but nobody who thinks thing is right has ever been able to explain how it makes any sense.

But "think" makes much more sense. The child thinks they are going into town but they are not so they have another think coming.

Thing makes absolutely no sense

can you provide proof then if you're so confident? because every link when I search says the complete opposite, maybe my google is broken....

You’re a generous and tolerant person. I would blue in the face from not saying ‘ETHER! You mean ETHER!’

@easylikeasundaymorn, the people who stubbornly hold to ‘thing’ are the same people who say ‘off his own back’. They are deviants.

Those who are adamant that the correct word is Thing as in "you've got another think coming" simply need to Google it.

It's absolutely "Another THINK coming" and the use of Thing is simply an original mishearing that has become embedded with some people.

It's no different from someone claiming it's "Chester Draws" not "Chest of drawers".
Or Tenderhooks not Tenterhooks.

Simply WRONG and rather boneheaded to insist otherwise I think.
(Or would you insist I have another Thing coming?) 🤔

I think he is wrong and you are right it's defo THING

Of course none of the people who think "thing" is right have never been able to explain how it makes any sense because it doesn't and they are wrong

Well it definitely is NOT. Why anyone would think that is right I really cannot understand

@ILJ28 , the ethos one is weird. I'd ask her what she means.

Give us one example where "another THING coming" makes sense.

Just yesterday I found out that is is not no holes barred, but, no holds barred.

I wonder if it’s a derivative of ‘and another thing’ and the two have combined to create ‘another thing coming’?