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 #2 (permalink) Mon Mar 05, 2007 7:26 am Expression: ‘Another think coming’ |
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| #3 (permalink) Mon Mar 05, 2007 9:04 am Expression: ‘Another think coming’ |
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Hi Tom,
This comment is really a sarcastic rejoinder that you make to show you have no intention of doing what the other person thinks or hopes you are going to do as in:
If you honestly think that I am going to give you any more help after all I've done for you, then you've got another think coming because I have no intention at all of doing so.
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| #4 (permalink) Mon Mar 05, 2007 9:08 am Expression: ‘Another think coming’ |
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| Gardengnome wrote: |
| i'd say its either a typo, or he's going to think again |
Hi Gardengnome,
Welcome to the forum. You mentioned typos and I think there are two of them in your sentence: i should I and its should read it's. Am I right?
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| #6 (permalink) Mon Mar 05, 2007 14:11 pm Expression: ‘Another think coming’ |
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Hi,
Interestingly enough this comes from the Cambridge Dictionary of American Idioms:
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have another think (coming)
to need to consider something again. If you expected praise just for doing your job, you had another think coming. I really do know what I'm talking about, and if you don't agree, you had better have another think.
See also: another, think
Cambridge Dictionary of American Idioms © Cambridge University Press 2003 |
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