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Currant Bun
nickname
The Sun, a daily newspaper UK
Rhyming slang, acquired from the solar original.- I had to go further down the road to get me currant bun, / Hello – Isn’t that George on page one? — Madness In the Middle of the Night, 1979
- — The Times, 10 June 1982
- [S]uch masterpieces of the scribe’s art as Magna Carta, Hansard and the Currant Bun[.] — Andrew Nickolds, Back to Basics, p. 32, 1994
- Patient confidentiality, remember. Just her. No nurses or theatre orderlies ready to spill their guts for a backhander from the Currant Bun. — Christopher Brookmyre, Boiling a Frog, p. 86, 2000
- That lot in the Currant Bun? — Garry Bushell, The Face, p. 153, 2001
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