convoy, hard and fast

Daily Highlights Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Spotlight

Kenny Chesney

There's an industry that revolves around concert tours. A long caravan of buses and trucks typically carries instruments, lights, sound equipment, costumes, stage crew and performers. Country singer/songwriter Kenny Chesney, who turns 40 today, likes to go light from time to time. With a convoy of just four buses, he travels to informal venues — often near college campuses — then sets up his instruments and performs, for free. There is no official announcement, no tickets, no hard-and-fast program. It's what Chesney does when he's not, well... working. Chesney calls these his "Keg in the Closet" shows, and he often starts his performance with the hit song of the same name.

Quote

"If you pull a heartstring, then that's what country music is." — Kenny Chesney

Definition

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noun [C]
a group of vehicles or ships which travel together, especially for protection:
A convoy of trucks containing supplies was sent to the famine area.

convoy Hide phonetics
verb [T]
to travel with a vehicle or group of people to make certain that they arrive safely:
Two tanks convoyed the trucks across the border.

Idioms:

hard and fast

Defined, fixed, invariable, as in We have hard and fast rules for this procedure.
This term originally was applied to a vessel that has come out of water, either by running aground or being put in dry dock, and is therefore unable to move. By the mid-1800s it was being used figuratively.