Idiom Breakdown

have another think coming

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Definition

To be deluded, to be mistaken; to need to rethink something one has determined; to need to reconsider one's plans or expectations.

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"If you think you're going to marry my daughter, you have another think coming."
"My finish then less clearly do I see, / For lo ! I have another think a-coming."
"...and if you think just because we are at war I'm going to give my brains an opiate or send them away on a vacation, you got another think a comin'. I wasn't built that way."
"But if she figured she could break him, she had another think a coming."
"I told them they had another think a-coming if they thought they could talk me down like they did Papa, and they could just pack themselves right off my..."
"He had another think a-coming, that begrimed whoremonger!"

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