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'

It was in the 1980s that being sarcastic was very much part of the North American vernacular - "that's amazing, NOT!" "Like I give a shit!" etc.

"I could care less" was part of that. As the overall trend died out, remnants stuck around. Without the context they look nonsensical, but that's where I comes from

"Fika" in Swedish is a similar thing. About 100 years ago it was cool.and fun to reverse syllables as a sort of slang. Kafi became Fika and it stuck long after the slang trend fell by the wayside.

The original thing is the thing that you originally thought/ expected as a result of your original thought.

No. Its not both

Its not both.

It was thing when I was growing up. I accept im wrong ...

But thing made perfect sense. An euphemism for a consequence. Like how adults put in a benign word to replace a swear word

No, Im having a long hard think. Having a think. Going to have a think

The original thing was a think, so the second thing needs to also be a think. This is particularly important because the phrase is heavy to be a bit of a play on words.

If the think was the original thing, then the other thing can also be a think, though.

Or it's the reality that will replace your false expectation, i.e. if you think you can get away with this, you have another thing coming: you think you are going to get away with it, but another thing will happen instead.

It doesn't have the wordplay element, but it makes sense all the same.

(A) It’s not both.
(B) The original is ‘think’.
(C) People who use ‘think’ are not hard of hearing but accurate.

Apart from those three things, everything else you say is spot on!

@slightlydistracsame…I’ve just listened to the recording AND watched the video and he definitely says ‘think’ 👌🏻😍

You are totally missing my point, which I can't be bothered to rephrase yet again. Suffice to say, you are incorrect.

I was born in the early 1950s.

The phrase was "If you think XXXXX XXX XXXX then you've got another think coming."

It was never "another thing coming".

And while I'm here, in the UK, the phrase is "I couldn't care less..." Not "I could care less..."

This is correct. All of it.

'You've got another think coming' as in 'Think again'.

It is absolutely ‘think’. ‘Thing’ is never correct.

For example: “If you think ‘should of’ is correct, you’ve got another think coming”.

With respect, if you're not willing to explain why I'm wrong, I'll stick with my view - and the evidence of widespread establishment usage - that both are fine.

"Think" does not need to be repeated - though the wordplay is fun in that version. "Another" does not need to refer to a specific word already used. The logic of the expression works either way. It's a slightly different logic either way, but that's okay.

"Think" is the version I've always used, but that simply doesn't make an alternative idiom incorrect.

Yeah I explained I know what it "means" - not being rude but the q wasn't about the background or history or whatever of sayings, its whether they make sense. and wishing someone good luck by referring to them getting a serious injury clearly doesn't.

But the darkest part of the night ISNT before dawn. it's no darker at 4am than it is at 1am. Thus why it doesn't make sense.

Again. Official lyrics version. With Buble pointing at the words as he sings them. Including "thing". Could not be clearer.
You might be hearing it as think because of the emphasis on the "c" of "coming" but its clearly (though incorrectly) "thing".

I think it raises the question.
Begging the question is something quite different, and too complex for me to remember what it means exactly. But it's not that.

I don't think either is illogical.

You've racked up 4 pages while my back was turned yesterday. I want time to catch up.

I was always interested to note that Bud Flanagan does not pronounce the ‘k’ in think throughout the ‘Dad's Army’ theme song. We hear ‘Who do you thing you are kidding Mr Hitler’, while the meaning is clearly think. This despite flowing into vowels not consonants (‘think you’ and ‘think Old’).

I’ve never said the phrase in my life or heard anyone ever use it but I do know the phrase.

I did actually think it was ‘another thing coming’ but only because of how it sounds and I’ve never given it much thought as I’ve never used it or heard it spoken out loud.

But I am glad I know how it’s meant to be used

I’ve always said ‘thing’ and it’s always made perfect sense to me. Ie. It means you’ve got something else coming, another item, action, event etc.