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red-handed

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by A. Makkai, M.T. Boatner, J.E. Gates

[red-handed] {adj.}

In the very act; while committing a crime or evil action.

* /The criminal was caught red-handed while holding up the neighborhood bank at gunpoint./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

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