red-handed

red-handed
adv
in the act, in the very act, Latin, in flagrante delicto, Law. flagrante delicto, with one's hand in the till, with one's hand in the cookie jar, with one's finger in the pie, Sl. with one's pants down, Sl. dead to rights; at the scene of the crime.

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