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

[NotMyRealName2015]

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.'

Classics!!! How exciting must get a life

My DH will be so proud. Thank God our argument didn't go on as long as this thread has...the garden never would have been finshed

It's think

THINK.

And its spitting TACKS, not feathers, when you're angry.

Tsk.

Yes - 'spitting feathers' means being very thirsty.

I didn't know that one, but it seems that "spitting feathers" to mean angry is catching on, despite the older meaning. So that upstart interpretation may be another thing coming.

www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/spitting-feathers.html

It's think, always was growing up in the N.E where this was common & if you look at the structure of the phrase it's the only one that makes sense. You have that thought & I'm not doing it, so you have another thought/think coming

Spiting feathers is another common Geordie one & it definitely means angry 😐

It's think as in 'he can think again'

Best get your gardening gloves on. I really wanted to be on your side too, but it's definitely thing!

Thing as in some THING else is going to happen to what you think 😁

As opposed to "if you think I'm doing that you can think again" - totally different phrase!

Oh cripes, zombie thread!

It is absolutely, indisputably 'think'.

Just because a lot of people say 'thing' doesn't make it right!