LINGUAL LAPSES
Credit: NY Times Crossword
Bert Rosenfield

1. What's the difference between one problem after another and a lion with a toothache?

2. What's the difference between "This is what it is" and advice about an overgrown vegetable garden.

3. What's the difference between the main idea and a millinery store?

4. What's the difference between an operetta by Sigmund Romberg and sensible work periods?

5. What's the difference between a day camp activity and land and water transport?

Answers:

1. When it rains it pours, and when it pains it roars.
2. Read it and weep and weed it and reap.
3. The heart of the matter and the mart of the hatter. 
4. The Student Prince  and prudent stints.
5. Arts and crafts and carts and rafts

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