Currant Bun

See also: currant bun

English

Alternative forms

currant bun

Proper noun

Currant Bun or the Currant Bun

(Cockney rhyming slang) The Sun (celestial body).
(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?"
- 1992 July 22, Andrew Moncur, “Diary”, in The Guardian, London, page 21, columns 1–5:
  THAT painfully honest little newspaper, the Sun, was boiling with indignation yesterday about the case of the Tory minister who tried to smear Paddy Ashdown. […] Imagine, for instance, this call. […] K[elvin] M[acKenzie]: “Paddy Pantsdown? We done ’im already, Douggie. Don’t you read the Currant Bun?” […] Two weeks ago the editor of the Independent, a daily paper, was being screamed at by the Sun (aided by Britain’s biggest tabloid, the Sunday Times). Why? For having the unspeakable nerve to reveal all about Mrs Bottomley. We’ll get you, warned the Currant Bun.
- 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.
- 2009 July 7, Matthew Norman, “[Sporting Miscellanies] Stevie G risks wrath as he soaks up The Sun”, in Evening Standard, London, page 50, columns 1–2:
  A friend returns from Istanbul to report spotting him reclining by the pool with a copy of The Sun resting atop the pile of papers on the drinks table. This wouldn’t go down well back home, where the Scousers still boycott the paper 20 years after its Hillsborough coverage. Many Brits go abroad to indulge tastes discouraged here but Stevie G is the first case of someone flying to Turkey to read the Currant Bun in safety.
- 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^[1], 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.

References

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.)”