catch red-handed

catch red-handed

English

Verb

catch red-handed (third-person singular simple present catches red-handed, present participle catching red-handed, simple past and past participle caught red-handed)

1. (transitive) To discover or capture someone in the act of committing a crime.

Translations

capture someone in the act of committing a crime

Chinese: Mandarin: 當場捕獲／当场捕获 (dāngchǎng bǔhuò) Dutch: op heterdaad betrappen Finnish: jäädä rysän päältä kiinni (fi) French: prendre la main dans le sac (fr) Galician: cachar, coller na allada German: auf frischer Tat ertappen Hungarian: rajtakap (hu), tetten ér Indonesian: menangkap basah (id) Italian: cogliere in flagrante, cogliere sul fatto, cogliere con le mani nel sacco, cogliere con il sorcio in bocca, cogliere con le mani nella marmellata Polish: łapać na gorącym uczynku impf, złapać na gorącym uczynku pf Portuguese: pegar no flagra Romanian: prinde cu mâța-n sac Russian: поймать с поличным (pojmatʹ s poličnym), заста́ть на ме́сте преступле́ния (zastátʹ na méste prestuplénija), поймать за руку (ru) (pojmatʹ za ruku)

See also

• hand in the cookie jar