"A hole big enough to drive a truck through" (1922)

[Orin Hargraves]

>   Holes to drive a truck through?
>   I found this idiom/catchphrase while searching SPORTING NEWS.  A football
offensive line has opened a huge hole for the running back to pass through--so
huge you can drive a truck through the hole.  The catchphrase has been used
for holes in movie/political logic, but why would you "drive a truck" through
there?  Maybe you can drive an SUV through, instead?
>
The Brit equivalent phrase is "drive a coach and horses through," which on the
face of it would seem to date from an earlier time. Perhaps the truck version
is just a transatlantic, 20th c. update?

Orin Hargraves