[Ads-l] "another thing coming" antedated to 1866

[Neal Whitman]

Oh no! COHA, how could you?

> On Apr 19, 2017, at 11:36 PM, Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> I'm afraid COHA has some bad metadata here. The quote is from "Tom Swift in
> the City of Gold" by Victor Appleton, published in 1912.
> 
> https://books.google.com/books?id=UP0_AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA84
> 
> So it's not an antedating of "another think coming" (let alone "another
> thing coming" suggested by the subject line). 1897 is still the date to
> beat.
> 
> --Ben
> 
> 
> On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 11:12 PM, Neal Whitman <nwhitman at ameritech.net>
> wrote:
> 
>> Via COHA:
>> 
>> No one looking like either was to be seen, and Tom’s mind at once went
>> back to the vacant seats at the table. “By Jove, Ned!” he exclaimed. “I
>> believe I have it!”
>> “Have what–a fit of seasickness?”
>> “No, but these empty seats–the persons we saw you know–they belong there
>> and they’re afraid to come out and be seen.”
>> “Why should they be–if they’re not the Fogers. I guess you’ve got *another
>> think* coming.”
>> 
>> Date    1866
>> Publication information         Lee and Shepard
>> Title   Outpost
>> Author  Austin, Jane G. (Jane Goodwin), 1831-1894
>> Source  Outpost
>> 
>> 
>> Blogged, with links to Ben's and Mark Liberman's discussions on Language
>> Log in 2007/2008: https://literalminded.wordpress.com/2017/04/19/another-
>> thought-coming/
>> 
>> Neal
>> 
>> 
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