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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 1 of 2 1 2 and another thing.. #130773 07/25/04 05:44 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm OP Carpal Tunnel OP tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass I thought the phrase was, "if you think... you've got another think coming.", but no: http://www.comics.com/comics/pearls/archive/pearls-20040724.html Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: and another thing.. #130774 07/25/04 06:00 PM Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 96 Illinois A amnow journeyman amnow journeyman A Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 96 Illinois Cannot imagine that the cartoon is correct. I've never seen that, and I figger I'm old enough to have seen darned near everything! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: and another thing.. #130775 07/25/04 06:27 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont I've always heard "thing". always figured that "another think coming" was a clever play on words... huh. formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: and another thing.. #130776 07/25/04 06:36 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,788 Seattle, Washington, USA Father Steve Carpal Tunnel Father Steve Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,788 Seattle, Washington, USA "If you think that, you have another think coming" means "You are mistaken and will soon have to alter your opinion". This is now sometimes heard with "thing" in place of "think", but "think" is the older version. Eric Partridge, in _A Dictionary of Catch Phrases_, gives the phrase as "you have another guess coming", "US: since the 1920s, if not a decade or two earlier". Clearly "think" is closer to "guess" than "thing" is. The OED gives a citation with "think" from 1937, and no evidence for "thing". Merriam-Webster Editorial Department writes: "When an informal poll was conducted here at Merriam-Webster, about 60% of our editors favored 'thing' over 'think,' a result that runs counter to our written evidence." Source: [Mark Israel, 'Phrase Origins: "You have another think coming"', The alt.usage.english FAQ file,(line 5502), (29 Sept 1997)] http://www.yaelf.com/aueFAQ/mifyuhvnrthnkcmng.shtml Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: and another thing.. #130777 07/25/04 06:45 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont guess I should be an M-W editor... formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: and another thing.. #130778 07/25/04 07:53 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm OP Carpal Tunnel OP tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass think, n. 2. a. What one thinks about something; an opinion. 1835 LADY GRANVILLE Lett. (1894) II. 187 My own private think is that he will execute another voluntary. 1861 J. BROWN Horæ Subs. Ser. II. 355 The cobbler..dispenses his ‘think’..to all comers on all subjects. b. to have another think coming: to be greatly mistaken. 1937 Amer. Speech XII. 317/1 Several different statements used for the same ideathat of some one's making a mistake...[e.g.] you have another think coming. 1942 T. BAILEY Pink Camellia xxvii. 199 If you think you can get me out of Gaywood, you have another think coming. 1979 Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts CXXVII. 221/2 Any design consultant who thinks he is going to get British Leyland right by himself on his own has got another think coming. [OED2] Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: and another thing.. #130779 07/25/04 08:10 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont you don't find think as a noun very often... formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: and another thing.. #130780 07/25/04 09:06 PM Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 96 Illinois A amnow journeyman amnow journeyman A Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 96 Illinois ...and I'll be your dissenting opinion! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: and another thing.. #130781 07/25/04 10:24 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,788 Seattle, Washington, USA Father Steve Carpal Tunnel Father Steve Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,788 Seattle, Washington, USA "noun 1. colloq An act of thinking. Example: have a good think" http://www.allwords.com/word-think+twice.html Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: and another thing.. #130782 07/25/04 10:40 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont see, it's one of them colloqs... formerly known as etaoin... 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