You've got to be kidding.

I have never - NEVER - seen "another thing coming" until I tuned into this discussion in a previous thread. And if I ever heard it spoken, I translated it in my head to "think" and didn't hear the other. It's got to be another example of creeping liberalism in either speech or hearing which robs us of the ability to discern the actual and factual thing that we think we're both hearing and saying beyond the shadow of a doubt which creates in us the inalienable right to fight for Rocky VII with or without curly fries and - [/end stream of uneditited musings]

Sorry.

I asked my high-school age daughter about this subject. She looked at me like I was crazy and said, "It's 'another thing coming,' Dad. What makes you think it would be 'another think coming?'" I explained my reasoning to her and she rolled her eyes and muttered something about old age and senility and stalked out of the room.


Life isn't a support system for writing. It's the other way around.

- Stephen King, from On Writing