"Just get through the big scene in act one and I can busk the rest".
Mr Hansard's story has a romantic appeal: he left school at 13 to busk on the streets of Dublin.
The corset of 16th-century Spain was supported in the front by a vertically placed wooden or bone rod (or two, if the garment laced in the front) known as a busk, which produced a flat shape, and was reinforced elsewhere with whalebone stays.
In order to assist his partner with her high jumps, the man held her close with his left hand above her right hip, his left thigh against her right thigh, and his right hand firm against the stiff busk below her bosom.
The busk became a predominant feature of later corsets, despite other changes.
Her later novels, Gymnadenia (1929; The Wild Orchid) and Den brændende busk (1930; The Burning Bush), were overtly influenced by her conversion to Roman Catholicism.
6. Go and busk elsewhere Only one male singer-songwriter in the recognisable sense of that term has ever won: Badly Drawn Boy for The Hour of Bewilderbeast in 2000.
Dreaming of being John Lennon, he used to busk on Westminster Bridge, often singing his own songs.
Let's see who can really busk it old-school style.
The new guidelines – the first for London's street musicians – cover issues from where to busk and how to minimise complaints to collecting money and sharing popular locations with other musicians.
He, or his adviser, also knows that he cannot busk it as he did at the TUC the other day, ad-libbing from notes, which is presumably how he has always given speeches before, when they haven't been completely ad-libbed.
