You've got another think coming...

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I mean god preserve us (someone will pick me up that I didn't capitalise god ...)

Another thread, which I think we're not allowed to talk about probably, massive argument about...

You've got another think coming.

People think that it's 'you've got another thing coming'

Judas Priest didn't help.

I came to say this. Great song though, especially the version from Judas Priest Live.

Left out an important bit:

My reference says originated in the UK and earlier by quite a few years than the second/incorrect version.

If I am remembering my many, many, years ago uni linguistics class correctly, this is to do with the ellision (?) of the two ‘k’ sounds in ‘think’ and ‘coming’. It ends up being more of a ‘g’ sound and because ‘thing’ is a word and ‘goming’ isn’t, lots of people hear it as ‘thing’.

I dont know why people over complicate it. Its literally just saying think twice

"If you think I'm [doing your work for you] you've got another think coming."

It's just a slightly different way of saying "if you think I'm [doing your work for you] you need to have another think/think again". No need to bring random, undefined "things" in to confuse a sentence which makes sense without them.

About which I think we are probably not allowed to talk...

https://www.vocabulary.com/articles/pardon-the-expression/another-think-coming-vs-another-thing-coming/

This has a good explanation. The full UK version is "if you think... you have another think coming" but American English doesn't really use think like that eg "have a think about it" so the US version became "thing". The UK version has a nice repetition to it.

I'm already at Crying in the Corner stage.

Absolutely this.

It's not the 'proof is in the pudding' though. The whole phrase is 'The proof of the pudding is in the eating' meaning you won't know what it's like until you eat it. Used as a metaphor, it means you don't know the outcome of any particular enterprise until it's finished and you try it (more or less).

And “kick the bucket” is a reference to hanging.

No because it's a play on words.

Darkest before dawn is pretty self explanatory. The darkest part of night is the small hours before dawn.
Teaching your grandmother to suck eggs - raw eggs were commonly eaten, particularly by older people as they are soft, so something Grandmothers would be adept at doing.

I take the "another" to have the sense of "something else entirely", rather than to mean" additional", so there's no need for it to refer to an original thing.

So the meaning would be "if you think x, then because you're completely deluded, you're going to get a hell of a shock (another thing coming) when the truth hits you in the face.

With that meaning it wouldn't make sense to have think instead of thing because the whole point is you haven't thought very well in the first place, so you wouldn't be having a second think, you're just going to be bombarded by whatever is actually going to happen.

To me it's not quite the same meaning as" if you think that, you need to think again" because that doesn't have the shock element of the "thing coming".

I didn't know it was think for a long time. I always thought it was thing as in "an entirely different thing will actually happen"

Thing can cover anything, including a think.

It's like saying, something's going to change, something's coming etc. Another thing happened. Another thought came to me. Another thing occurred to me. I've had this thing on my mind. I had another think. I thought of a different thing.

The sentence makes as much sense one way as another.

Could easily be understood that way and would make perfect sense.

Mmmm because think is a verb

"Thought" doesn't quite work because the idea is that when you discover your error, you will in future be reflecting on your original belief - it suggests a process, rather than a single thought that is coming. So it's "If you think that, you'll be doing some more thinking again soon." A think.

'Have a think' .
It can be used as a noun
'Have a thought' is completely different.

Think is also a noun.

https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2017/04/thing-think.html

This article says that both phrases first appeared in the late 19th century and according to the editors of the Oxford English Dictionary "another thing coming" was a misapprehension of "another think coming".

I'm in agreement with the editors and won't be convinced otherwise

Another similar (but worse, imho) example is Americans saying 'I could care less' instead of 'I couldn't care less'. It makes no sense. They are idiots.

Yes. It sounds so stupid.

This reminds me of the Friends episode where Joey said he wanted time on his own with his thoughts but it turns out he "didn't have as many thoughts as you would think" 🤣

The issue is with the use of the word another, which doesn't work if you then say thing, because there was no original "thing". The word another references the word think, therefore the second word has to be think.