currant bun

currant +‎ bun

Mini currant buns

currant bun (plural currant buns)

1. A bun containing currants.

• currant bun on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

(the) currant bun

1. (Cockney rhyming slang) The Sun (celestial body).
2. (Cockney rhyming slang) The Sun (British newspaper).
   • 1979, “In the Middle of the Night”, performed by Madness:

     Had to go further down the road to get me Currant Bun / "Hello isn't that George on page one?"

   • 2008, Nicola Monaghan, Starfishing, London: Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 87:

     He normally read the Sun, swearing it was the best indicator of what would happen to the FTSE. His theory was simple: so many of the barrow boys trading on LIFFE read the currant bun that the markets were bound to do whatever its money column said.

   • 2022 October 2, Euan McColm, “Truss a ‘crank theorist’ whose experiments cause chaos: The new Prime Minister appears to have scant regard for the impact of her Government’s actions on voters worried about the impact on their pensions, mortgages and jobs”, in Scotland on Sunday‎, Edinburgh, archived from the original on 2022-10-02, page 8:

     After the bruising experience of Thursday morning, [Liz] Truss attempted a different tack, writing a piece for The Sun. In the article, which went online late on Friday evening, she told the paper’s readers that when she became Prime Minister, her government “could not afford to dither or delay”. […] Truss, a Remainer turned Brexit true believer, is clearly unfit for the post she has not yet held for a month and no number of flimsy articles in the Currant Bun will shake that widely held view.

• Ewart James (1997) “Currant Bun n.”, in NTC’s Dictionary of British Slang and Colloquial Expressions, Lincolnwood, Ill.: NTC Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 87, column 2: “the Sun. (Rhyming slang. The Sun is a daily newspaper. Usually with the.)”