red-handed | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)Showing clear evidence of guilt; in the act of wrongdoing.to catchred-handed1905January 12, Baroness Orczy [i.e.,Emma Orczy],The Scarlet Pimpernel, popular edition, London: Greening & Co., published20 March 1912,→OCLC:Caught,red-handed, on the spot, in the very act of aiding and abetting the traitors against the Republic of France, the Englishman could claim no protection from his own country.1991October, Edward L. Ayers, “Legacy of violence”, inAmerican Heritage, volume42, number 6, page102:Another Southerner argued that "commerce has no social illusions" and that it would be commerce that would rid the region of "this historic,red-handed, deformed, and swaggering villain."2003August, Pamela Paul, “Dear Reader, Get a Life.”, inPsychology Today, volume36, number 4, page56:Your husband is having sex with other women -- that's perfectly clear. Sometimes when cheaters are nabbedred-handedthey react with anger, they "rage" in an attempt to make the person who caught' em feel like they did something wrong.2003, Julie Elizabeth Leto,Up to no good, Toronto; New York: Harlequin:Made sense she'd be nervous, right? Made sense that she'd jump like ared-handedpickpocket when her friend Danielle, whom she'd thought had zonked out the minute she'd buckled her seat belt ten minutes ago, threw out such an intimate topic of conversation.; Deadly,bloody.2013,The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire,→ISBN:The demon of fire followed close upon the heels of the unseen fiend of the earth's hidden caverns, and ranred-handedthrough the metropolis of the West, kindling a thousand unhurt buildings, while the horror-stricken people stood aghast in terror, as helpless to combat this new enemy as they were to check the ravages of the earthquake itself.2014, Christian Cameron,The Great King,→ISBN:I grew to manhood listening to Greeks and Persians plotting various plots in my master's house, and one night all the plots burst forth into ugly blossoms and bore the fruit ofred-handedwar, and the Greek cities of Ionia revolted against the Persian overlords.2014, Robert E. Howard,The Phoenix on the Sword,→ISBN:He sees in Conan ared-handed, rough-footed barbarian who came out of the north to plunder a civilized land.; (informal)With hands that are red from blood.2008, Trevor Baxendale,Doctor Who: Wishing Well,→ISBN, page67:The blisters had wept blood for a while, leaving him literallyred-handedfor the rest of the night.2014, Rosa Liksom,Compartment - Issue 6,→ISBN:Ared-handedcleaning lady slopped a wet, ragged mop.

Examples:

EN: But we've got you red-handed.
ES: ¡Le hemos cogido in fraganti!
EN: Practically caught red-handed.
ES: El vestido lleno de sangre, el atizador a sus pies.
EN: Why, the woman was actually caught in the room red-handed.
ES: - Y sangre en su vestido. - Y peleando por un hombre.
EN: - Caught red-handed!
ES: - ¡Flagrante delito!
EN: - We caught a burglar red-handed.
ES: Hemos sorprendido a un ladrón con las manos en la masa.
EN: You were caught red-handed.
ES: Le han sorprendido... con las manos en la masa.
EN: Why, l caught him red-handed.
ES: ¿Por qué, yo lo atrapé con mis manos.
EN: Now I've got you, red-handed... the Duke of Charmerace.
ES: Ahora le he cogido con las manos en la masa. El Duque de Charmerace.
EN: And him, a red-handed murderer.
ES: Y resulta ser un asesino.
EN: Gotcha this time! Caught you red-handed!
ES: ¡Esta vez te pillé, mamón!
EN: If ever a crook was caught red-handed...
ES: Si han atraparon a un criminal con las manos en la masa...
EN: It, uh, looks like you, uh, kind of caught me red-handed there.
ES: Parece que me agarró con las manos en la masa.
EN: Before ? He caught you red-handed ?
ES: - ¿Te pilló in fraganti?
EN: But we caught him red-handed.
ES: - No voy a discutir... pero le hemos pillado con las manos en la masa.
EN: And if we can once draw him down out of those hills far enough, out into the open so that we can cut off his retreat, we've got him red-handed!
ES: Y si alguna vez podemos sacarlo lo suficiente de esas colinas... hasta un lugar abierto para bloquearle la retirada... ¡lo atraparemos con las manos en la masa!

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