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"..he's got another thing coming." I am curious about what you think this means?

• scrollaway 11y ago
  You got me curious. I looked it up. Definitely not what I thought. I'm not a native English speaker though, so that's my excuse :)
• KaiserPro 11y ago
  this has come to mean "they should think again"
• ColinWright 11y ago
  It used to be "he's got another think coming", meaning "he'll have to think again." It's along the lines of "he's had a thought, now there will be another thought coming." But it's been mutated by people who never heard the original properly and ended up misquoting it. It's like people who say "to all intensive purposes" when the original, meaningful saying is "to all intents and purposes." It has become an idiom, an atomic phrase, not to be understood by trying to take it apart and examining the components. This is a common occurrence in linguistics. Annoys the hell outta me.
  • shabble 11y ago
    In the simplest case, the thing referred to is 'a think', and they're entirely equivalent :) I'd argue that this is more of an Eggcorn[1] than a malapropism, unlike your second example. "The proof is in the pudding", or the classic "Could care less"[2] are the two worst offenders I can think of immediately. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om7O0MFkmpw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om7O0MFkmpw