明めい治じの大たい砲ほう

expression, noun

poor swing; hanging back during the swing

Golf idiom: a swing where the body hangs back, lacking forward weight shift, likened to an old-fashioned cannon. Literally 'Meiji-era cannon'.

• 彼かれのスイングは明めい治じの大たい砲ほうで、飛ひ距きょ離りが出でない。

  His swing is a 'Meiji-era cannon'—he doesn't get much distance.