Pedants unite! Please come & vote for “another think coming”!

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Dominic Grieve is reported to have said “another thing”!
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Give over. The phrase is think..then think...

You can't make it true just by being populist.

No, but it being in the Oxford English Dictionary helps.

Your analogy makes no sense but kudos for shoehorning Brexit in there apropos of nothing.

It should be "think".

I will agree that "another thing coming" can make sense, if you take another in the sense of "a different" rather than "an additional".

But it would be a rubbish idiom! The whole reason that this one became used is due to the repetition of the word think in its two senses. Most phrases like this have something playful — repetition, unexpected imagery etc.

I think I've seen too many threads on this.

And I also think that those who insist it's thing are hard of thinking.

That's throwing grammar out the window.

Only if you have no understanding of grammar. I find this thread more and more bizarre. It's not like how to pronounce "scone" where there can be two differing but equally valid ways depending on accent, dialect and so on. In this case, there's ONE correct version - "think" - and then a subsequent distortion of it which makes no sense at all - "thing". And yet people are insisting not only that the latter is a valid alternative but that it is in fact the ONLY correct version.

You can't make it true just by being populist. WTAF? It's true because the fucking dictionary says it's true! 😂

The OED
@OED
Heard the phrase 'another thing coming'? It arises from misapprehension of an earlier phrase, 'another think coming'.

I’m still reeling from doggy dog.

“People who voted for breakfast have another thing coming.”

This literally makes no sense.

Can’t you see, the play on words, the joke, the whole point of someone coming up with the phrase in the first place, is completely lost?

You have to have think in the sentence first.
Then you can have another THINK coming.
It’s supposed to be witty and wry.

Now I’m going to have to lie down now.

*Brexit I meant.

Although breakfast is a much better idea.

IVF always thought it was

I've always known the saying as 'another think coming'' -- in fact I don't think I've ever heard anyone say 'thing'.
Just as well really, I'd probably correct them ☺️

DH and I had an —argument—discussion about this a few months ago:

Me: Team Think
Him: Team Thing

Both born and live in SE England, for the PP who wondered if there a regional difference.

Obviously I’m right!

It's definitely, unequivocally, irrevocably THINK!

Still thing.

Always 'thing' in my childhood. Not a phrase I use now, as, like a previous poster, it usually meant a wallop or some other action that was different to what I wanted. Wallop is another word I haven't used for a long long time.

If you think x, then you are going to have to have another think about it because x is not going to happen. So you have another think coming.

What the heck has a 'thing' got to do with it?

If you think I'm going to lend you ten pounds you have another think coming. It's complete in itself. What has any other 'thing' got to do with it?

Wallop is another word I haven't used for a long long time.

That's OK. Joey Essex is using it every other sentence on Celebrity Masterchef at the minute.

Thing thing thing. Think makes no sense.

It’s think.

Explain how thing makes sense @missmouse101
What was the first thing that made another thing come along?

Well I got the wrong Dominic but at least I know it’s “think”.

Can I throw in the "'can't be arsed' or 'can't be asked'" bomb?

(In my accent, ask is pronounced ass-k, not ah-sk).

It's definitely 'arsed'. Arks for ask isn't that old a pronunciation - my grandparents said 'arsed' and they'd be over 100 now.

It's not that you can't be 'asked' to do something. Of course you can be asked.

Oh can't be 'asked' drives me crackers. You can be asked. I have just asked you. And I will ask you again and again if you continue to insist that you can't be asked.

Thank you, very sensible! I agree, it's 'arsed'.