Saw this in the sports pages yesterday and recalled the old "phrases from baseball" thread:

Former major leaguer and now coach Glenn Johnson, currently in Iran with other American baseball mentors to help them put together a baseball program and team for possible future Olympic competion, remarked that "not only were the nuances of the game lost on the (Iranian) players, but my colorful baseball jargon as well...when I'd say something like 'He couldn't hit a bull in the butt with a bass fiddle' they'd look at me strange and finally say, "What coach?" The phrase meaning a pitcher who couldn't throw accurately, of course.