Words That Should Rhyme But Don't
A female offspring & a sound of mirth
What are daughter and laughter?
This adjective found before "law" & "arts" means "warlike"
What is martial?
Someone who is not attentive is in this condition at the auto's steering mechanism
What is asleep at the wheel?
Some lines will have four tracks; two of them local and the other two allow for this kind of service where trains will skip select stops for a faster trip
What is express?
Writer Bill James' approach to this sport's stats have come to be known as sabermetrics
What is baseball?
A small pigeon & a kitchen range
What are dove and stove?
Also the name of a mineral, as an adjective it means resembling a snake in form or movement
What is serpentine?
In my mind I was chugging along toward a brilliant statement, but you made me lose this
What is my train of thought?
This train was removed from the MTA's lineup in 2010 due to budget cuts, but later made a return in 2016
What is the W?
Teams from Texas and New York share the name Rangers, in baseball and this other sport, respectively
What is hockey?
Half a quart & a small piece of fiber that comes off clothing
What are pint and lint?
From the Greek word for "hidden", it describes something mysterious in meaning
What is cryptic?
To do things in the wrong order, like with a wagon & a beast of burden
What is putting the cart before the horse?
The 4, 5, and 6 trains run along this line in Manhattan, stopping at Union Square and Grand Central along the way
What is the Lexington Avenue line?
What is football?
A muscle pain & a Native American people of Arizona
What are ache and Apache?
2 rhyming adjectives: one means envious, the other, enthusiastic & eager
What are jealous and zealous?
An isolated location is said to be "off" this thoroughfare
What is the beaten path?
The Q train currently provides service to three stations on Second Avenue; once more are built, this letter train will serve them all and bring the total number of subway routes to 26
What is T?
This sport involving a rope hasn't appeared in the Olympics since 1920
What is tug of war?
To hang around after others leave & a pungent root used in Asian cooking
What are linger and ginger?
Because it can be drawn or stretched out into a thin wire, copper is described by this adjective
What is ductile?
Pink Floyd's "Learning To Fly" speaks of this kind of "flight" into one's imagination
What is a flight of fancy?
Before 2005, the 9 train ran during rush hours in this service pattern with the 1; this pattern is still used by the J and Z
What is skip-stop?
What is cricket?