Re: Get
what's coming to them?
Posted by Rube on October
11, 2002 In Reply to: Re: Another think
posted by R. Berg on October 11, 2002
What does "get what's coming
to them" as an argument in favor of thing have to do with the phrase at all?
"I'm
done cleaning the bathroom.
If you think that, you've got another think coming
to you"
I think we all agree on the intended meaning of this phrase as used
here.
Why do we agree? Because there is a complete thought expressed in the
reply. The inference that the original speaker is incorrect in what he thinks,
ie., the bathroom is clean and therefore he is done, is plainly made, by the note
that he must think again before his thought processes correctly assess the situation.
"I'm
done cleaning the bathroom.
If you think that, you've got another thing coming"
What
is the idea intended by this?
How does that imply that the speaker/thinker
is incorrect and the bathroom is not clean nor is he done? Certainly it makes
no sense that "another thing" is cleaning the bathroom again, that is not another
thing, but rather the same thing. Is the other thing the temporal state of 'not
being done'? hardly qualifies as a thing.
As for best foot forward implying
three or more feet - how?
- Re: Best foot forward R. Berg
10/11/02 (4)
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