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

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I’ll clarify

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.
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.'

Those of you who think that it's thing have got another think coming, and you are just trying to find a scrape groat for your error.

The rest of us are on tenterhooks, hoping to see a pacific example of correct useage.

Don't get me started on less and fewer.

Think. Of course it's "think".

It's think.

Those of you who think that it's thing have got another think coming, and you are just trying to find a scrape groat for your error

I did actually see a chest of draws advertised earlier, I nearly took a picture.

I still can't get over how all the comments in the beginning were wholly convinced that 'thing' is correct.

I suspect there was a large element of the classic MN herd mentality: the first couple said "thing", then a whole batch of people who weren't entirely sure said to themselves "Of course it's "thing"!" and leapt in to post that and it gathered a bit of momentum before it began going the other way.

You see the same thing with issues like who is BU: the first couple of comments say OP is BU, a batch more say OP is definitely BU, now could anyone think differently. Then some brave soul points out that actually she's NBU, posters start turning on her for saying such an outrageous thing, then a couple more weigh in on the NBU side, and people start wavering and it does a complete U-turn to a unanimous NBU.

silvermantela I suppose it was just my logic and I'd never questioned it before this thread.

However, I had a fairly epic penny drop moment last week when I realised that 'artic' lorry was short for articulated, and not, arctic, which was what I thought it was. I thought that "arctic lorries" carried cold food and were basically massive refrigerators! You learn something new! I'd never thought about it until I saw it written down!

It's THINK

Makes me laugh all these misheard phrases. Someone on my FB last night said they were going trickle treating!

My dp winds me up by always saying for example "do you want a cup of tea or no?"
Using no instead of not. I repeatedly ask him not to as now my dd has started saying it incorrectly

It's think! How could it possibly be thing??? Wouldn't make any sense. Enjoy your coffee and biscuits...

I have always said "thing" like your DH. I'll have to Google the phrase now! Think just sounds wrong.

Starky another favourite of mine is "escape goat", very similar to think and thing I expect.

I didn't realise "thing" was a thing -I've always said "think" and had no idea there was an alternative. But I've also found out that I am by no means in the majority in thinking "spitting feathers" means thirsty. I don't know what I'd do without Google!

Really! I've always thought it was thing!
As in you've got another thing coming ( and that THING will be something even worse, like a punch to the arm/bucket of water over your head )

I thought "spitting feathers" meant thirsty! Does it not?

Escape goat is brilliant through, conjours an imagine of a hoofed Houdini

I wonder how many more posters we're going to get piling in here saying "Oh, I've always said "another thing coming" because I met some woman at the bus stop in 1983 who said it, so it must be right."

"Spitting feathers" is being furious, isn't it? Where does "thirsty" come from?

As in, my throats so dry, its full of feathers, so you desperately need a brew/cup of tea. Similar to I'm so hungry, my stomach thinks my throats been cut.

spitting feathers for those who are interested. I am not, by the way, over 50 despite what the article says

I've always said 'think', and DH said think too when I asked him. When I read the first few responses I was , but now I see that 'think' is correct!

I'd say spitting feathers was thirsty. I love escape goat!! A cartoonist (hyperbole and a half) did a cartoon about 'alot'.

It's think. I used to say thing until my English teacher corrected me. Obviously as soon as she did I realised that 'thing' doesn't even make sense.

Most people I know say thing and I always want to correct them but bite my tongue.

Well, I'll be blowed; I never knew that about the feathers.

Wahoo! I thought "think", read the first replies and wondered if I'd had it wrong all these years - and then read the subsequent replies. Am feeling relatively smug.

But top tip - get your in-laws to do the gardening - avoids all arguments. Mine have been here this weekend and spent several hours helping, while I've stayed inside colouring with DS. And I only had to provide them with B&B and the entertainment of taking their grandson round a National Trust Halloween trail - bargain!

Ha, I am over 50!

I've never heard or seen "thing" and assumed the op's header was a typo.

Spitting feathers, my grandma would say it if she was thirsty but to me the expression means being in a rage. Is it possibly a regional variation?

Can I chuck in "toeing the line" written as "towing the line", something I'm sure I've only ever seen on MN! Perhaps it's always the same poster who uses it?