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.'

Think here too. It was one of my DM's favourite phrases when I was growing up.

Come to think about it - she still uses it!

Never heard anyone say 'thing'. We talk proper here in Rochdale

It's think. What's the other 'thing' you all think he has coming?

The tooth-comb thing REALLY winds me up too!

My current favourite pet hate is people using "free reign" instead of "free rein" It's seen a lot on here.

It's REIN, people !

It's think.

It's think.

Thing makes no sense in context.

Think, definitely. Not thing.

It's think how can anyone think it's thing.

It's so obviously think!

"If you think I'm doing the gardening, you've got another think coming"

How can it possibly be thing?? Cmon people, don't be stoopid.

I always thought it was "another thing coming" the other thing usually being an argument, or a crack in the chops. Now both words just look like wrongness.

I always thought it was thing so I have learnt something new! I happy to accept that I'm stupid!

I've always said thing. No one I've met IRL has ever said think. I only saw think on here.

I know everyone is saying its a play in words but think makes no sense to me.

I always thought it was ...
if you think I am going to do that thing, then you have another thing coming (because I'm doing this thing instead) So the "thing" is what you are doing IYSWIM.

So if you think I'm going to do the garden, you have another thing coming. That thing being me sat on my arse eating biscuits.

But I may be wrong. If I am then so is everyone else I've ever met!

Exactly fatty that's my thought process to it too!

I have never heard anyone say 'think'.

Always thought it was 'thing' and meant as a lighthearted threat.

No, the repeated 'think' is deliberate and for rhetorical effect.

Which makes no sense at all Fatty.

Would you say "If you think that you need to thing again" or would you say "If you think that you need to think again" which is what the phrase "If you think that, you've got another think coming" means.

Of course it's think

It's another way of saying 'if you think that, think again'

I'm Team Think. What OnlyLovers said ^.

It is most definitely THINK and always has been - ie, you have thought once, and have another think coming (in other words, you need to change your mind, or way of thinking). 'Thing' is a result of people mishearing - it is wrong.

But think again is a different phrase!
As I said of I'm wrong then so is everyone I've ever met.

It's obviously 'think'. 'Think' is widely used as a noun in phrases such as 'Can you have a think about it?' or 'I'll have another think about the best way to do it', so it's not even really a play on words. The only unusual thing about it is the notion of 'a think coming' but then 'a thing coming' would be just as strange and additionally would make no sense in the context of the first half of the expression.

It may be a different phrase Fatty but it is what the 'another think coming' phrase means, it is a play on words for effect using 'thing' makes it a nonsense and loses the play on words effect.