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Expression: ‘Another think coming’



 
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Expression: ‘Another think coming’ Mon Mar 05, 2007 7:20 am  Expression: ‘Another think coming’
 

Hi

Quote:
If you think I am going to pay all your bills you have got another think coming.


What is the meaning? Shocked

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Expression: ‘Another think coming’ Mon Mar 05, 2007 8:26 am  Expression: ‘Another think coming’
 

i'd say its either a typo, or he's going to think again
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Expression: ‘Another think coming’ Mon Mar 05, 2007 10:04 am  Expression: ‘Another think coming’
 

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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Expression: ‘Another think coming’ Mon Mar 05, 2007 10:08 am  Expression: ‘Another think coming’
 

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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Expression: ‘Another think coming’ Mon Mar 05, 2007 14:13 pm  Expression: ‘Another think coming’
 

Hi Tom

I know this expression as "...you've got another thing coming".
Have a look here:
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/If+thinks+,+'ve+got+another+thing%2Fthink+coming

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Expression: ‘Another think coming’ Mon Mar 05, 2007 15:11 pm  Expression: ‘Another think coming’
 

Hi,

Interestingly enough this comes from the Cambridge Dictionary of American Idioms:

Quote:
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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