Quedarse con las ganas

[Rusty]

Originally Posted by JPablo

... you’ve got another thing coming o you’re in for a disappointment (colloq);

The common expression uses 'thing' instead of 'think', but according to an internet search you're not the only one who thinks it should be think.

[Elaina]

Maybe......
-left me high and dry

[María José]

Originally Posted by Iris

Thanks, that's more or less what I told him. So I suppose he'll have to make do with one of those. You know what students are like sometimes, they don't totally believe you if you tell them there isn't an exact expression, they want languages to be like maths. But this one is not like that, so he'll be grateful.

I wonder what became of Iris... Hadn't seen any of her old posts for like a million years.

Originally Posted by JPablo

I kind of agree with Robindesbois... and everyone else.
Oxford Superlex gives some good options too,
queríamos ir pero al final nos quedamos con las ganas (fam) = we wanted to go, but it wasn’t to be;
me quedé con las ganas de decirle lo que pensaba = I never got to tell him what I really thought;
si te crees que te va a decir que sí te vas a quedar con las ganas (fam) = if you think he’s going to say yes, you’ve got another think coming o you’re in for a disappointment (colloq);

You meant you've got another thing coming.
All this talk has reminded me of a student who asked me the meaning of 'to long for' and then said he was going to hit me, but after a while rectified and said he had meant to say hit on me...
J/K: We joke constantly in that class as they are all grown ups and get on very well together.
Iris/Gemma/María.

[JPablo]

Originally Posted by Rusty

The common expression uses 'thing' instead of 'think', but according to an internet search you're not the only one who thinks it should be think.

Originally Posted by María José

You meant you've got another thing coming.

Yes, I agree with "you've got another thing coming" as the most widely spread and used expression, but in the CONTEXT of my sentence I put as an example... "if you think... [whatever] you've got another think coming", seems more appropriate.

I believe (I may be wrong) that the "think" version is more common in England... (At least a British person who I asked, immediately told me the version with "think" as the "real McCoy" and not the one with "thing"...)

Anyhow... like some Gospel says... De todo hay en la viña del Señor, meaning that there are many choices that may be valid...
Thank you for your input!

You can also check
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=120
or search in Google, "you've got another think" vs "other thing" and will see different views on the matter.

[CrOtALiTo]

That could work as to leaves with wish of something?

Quedarse con deseos de algo.

Welcome again María José
Always I liked your name.

[Rusty]

Originally Posted by CrOtALiTo

That could work as to leaves with wish of something?

Quedarse con deseos de algo.

"To leave one wishing for something," is the correct way to phrase what you posted, but you won't hear it said that way very often.

This story leaves me wishing for another (story).

There are several, more colloquial, ways to say the same thing:

This story leaves/makes me thirsty for more.
I long to hear another story (like that).
I'm yearning to hear another story (like that one).
This story leaves me wanting another.
I could listen to stories like that all day.

[CrOtALiTo]

Originally Posted by Rusty

"To leave one wishing for something," is the correct way to phrase what you posted, but you won't hear it said that way very often.

This story leaves me wishing for another (story).

There are several, more colloquial, ways to say the same thing:

This story leaves/makes me thirsty for more.
I long to hear another story (like that).
I'm yearning to hear another story (like that one).
This story leaves me wanting another.
I could listen to stories like that all day.

You have said.

To leave one wishing of something.
Please, I haven clear the use of the one there with the -ING uses.

Now I haven't clear the phrase
I'm yearning to hear another story (like that one).

What does yearning means?

I will be grateful with your answer.

[Rusty]

to yearn (for) something = anhelar algo (quedarse con las ganas)

I'm yearning to hear another story.
Anhelo oír otra historia.
Me quedo con las ganas de oír otra historia.