Expression: ‘Another think coming’

[Tom]

Hi

[b]

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

[/b]

What is the meaning? :shock:

Tom

[Gardengnome]

i’d say its either a typo, or he’s going to think again

[Alan]

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.

A

[Torsten]

@Gardengnome

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?

Regards,
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[Yankee]

Hi Tom

I know this expression as “…you’ve got another thing coming”.
Have a look here:
idioms.thefreedictionary.com/If+ … ink+coming

Amy

[Alan]

Hi,

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

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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