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red·-handed (redhandid)

adverb

  1. while committing a crime or doing some wrong
  2. in an undeniably incriminating or compromising situation

Etymology: < the notion of the hands covered with a victim's blood

red-handed* Synonyms

red-handed*

modif.

caught in the act, in flagrante delicto (Latin), while one is at it, in a compromising position, blatantly, with one's hand in the cookie jar*; see also guilty 2, openly 2.

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