not literally

I've just heard an expression in Spanish—más sabe el Diablo por viejo que por diablo—that has no literal equivalent en inglés better than wisdom comes with age.

be the ball.

in The Art of War, Sun Tzu wrote, "be where your enemy is not." in beer-league softball, this quote is akin to "Wee" Willie Keeler's "hit 'em where they ain't."

John Lennon—or George Harrison?

if you will, imagine John Lennon, Jim Noir, Paul Simon, and Cat Stevens are at an orgy and somehow make a baby. Eric Hutchinson would be that baby—a good thing.