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 love one bird with two stones. It explains so much so concisely.

And I think “rest bite” is cute. Never heard it before.

Think / thing is really interesting!!

I was born abroad. 1st trip to visit DH's parents in UK, we went for a pub lunch. FIL announces he is having the Steak and Owl Pie. I piped up 'Oh really. I didn't realise you could eat them. Are they wild or farmed???'

Clearly it was Steak and Ale, but I'd never heard of this pie combo before, plus I wasn't used to his accent. 😄

As well as being a self-proclaimed pedant, I think people should enunciate clearly.
When someone says 'to all intents'n purposes' it sounds like 'to all intensive purposes', and unless you think about it, you'll repeat what you heard.

The proof is in the pudding - drives me nuts when I hear it

If you think that you can do that, there will be a repercussion... I.e. a "thing".

I accept it was originally think. But after 35 years of hearing thing from friends, family, teachers etc... thing makes sense.

Ignore me I totally misread your post! Many apologies

Of course it’s ’another THINK coming’ as it’s another way of telling someone to think again. Another thing coming makes no sense in the context of the saying. I’ve had this argument with someone before who insisted it’s ’thing’ even after I’ve explained why it’s wrong 🤣😭

A friend once told me she was resting her legs because she had,
Very Close Veins.

Something 'cut and dried' is not 'cut and dry'. Perhaps it's confused with 'high and dry'.

'In the firing line' instead of 'the line of fire'. The firing line is the party doing the firing. 'In the line of fire' is being in danger from it.

'Free rein' references a horse's rein, not the king's reign.

'Taken aback', often said as 'taken back'. (An old word form like 'astern'.)

I quite like, the thick plottens, more usually said as the plot thickens

My mum was terrible for getting this sort of thing wrong.

The brasserie round the corner from us was always called the brassiere.

Police wore flap jackets.

And she wrote in Christmas cards one year that she was delighted to have become a grandmother after I had my first child. And that I had HIV (she meant IVF).

I have the utmost respect, not the upmost.

Ah yes, utmost (from uttermost) but there are people who will maintain that they are right and you are wrong.

' He changed tack', not tact.

My mother was saying "think" in this context in the 50s as in "If you think you're getting any sweets now, young lady, you've got another think coming!" (usually for some minor bit of cheekiness that I was unaware of and accompanied by a slap) so it's definitely not recent. I'm sure she'd been saying it all her life.

In fairness I see “fuck sake” and “fucksake” used.

The other day I saw a quote from someone in the news and it said

'Soandso said of this, if she thinks blahblah, she has another think [sic] coming'

So the writer of the article clearly thought 'think' was incorrect. I was appalled to be honest!

And ‘fuck sakes’

Also fewer and less are usually misused, which also relates to discrete!

Exactly this.

I always take it as drunk when I read it.

Purposely and purposefully are often confused.

Something I'm hearing and reading more and more that drives me mad is: he was tearing along nine to the dozen. It makes no sense

It's nineteen to the dozen. In other words, he's speeded up from what would normally be a dozen (steps) and is now doing nineteen steps.

Nine to the dozen would mean he's slowed down.

Really bugs me.

@NotExactlySuits , the newspapers seem to rely on spellcheckers.
Palate, palette and pallet are often incorrectly used.

Hail Mary , full of grapes ( saying the prayer as a child)

Tenter hooks are still used. If you know anything about fabric it’s the little holes down the selvedge.

Another think coming is correct but I can see why it's confusing. Because wouldn't it make more sense to say you've got another THOUGHT coming?

Step foot annoys me.

Also "mind your business". The correct expression is "mind your OWN business". Likewise, "I feel you" instead of the correct "I feel FOR you". I feel you sounds like you're honking someone's boobs.

An amusing recollection: my uni boyfriend trying to explain to an overseas student that describing something as "the bollocks" means it's really good but just "bollocks" means it's bad/rubbish.