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A bun in the ovenMeaningPregnant. Oven = womb, baby = bun. OriginThe allusion may just be to the loose connection between 'baby' and 'bunny'. It's more likely that this, and other terms for pregnant, like 'up the duff' and 'in the pudding club', all share the same euphemistic source. The phrase is 20th century. The first citation I can find is in Nicholas Monsarrat's Cruel Sea, 1951:
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