Christmas is over and Business is Business.

The line wryly captures the abrupt shift from holiday sentiment to the hard-edged routines of commerce. By pairing “Christmas” (a season associated with generosity, leisure, and communal feeling) with the blunt maxim “Business is Business,” it suggests how quickly social warmth can be replaced by transactional priorities once the festive interval ends. The repetition of “Business” underscores inevitability: whatever ideals the holiday briefly elevates, economic life reasserts itself. In Adams’s typical newspaper-verse manner, the humor depends on deflation—puncturing seasonal uplift with a terse reminder that the marketplace’s logic is perennial.