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

[Ben Zimmer]

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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