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Chris -- 2018-04-11
You’ve got another ‘thing’ coming, instead of “If you think X, then you’ve got another ‘think’ coming!”
Last edited by Khomans (2006-06-20 11:36:54)
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Well, the original form of the idiom is undoubtedly “another think coming”.
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While serving on a grand jury once, I heard a witness testify in his story that at one point he had to ‘take a urine’.
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I know there is a lot of debate about this one, but it seems to me that the expression “If you THINK such-and-such, you have ANOTHER think coming” makes more sense than “thing.” “Another thing? Just what would that thing be?
Feeling quite combobulated.
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