See in flagrante delicto on Wiktionary
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"word": "на местопрестъплението"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "in the act of committing a misdeed",
"word": "på fersk gerning"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "in the act of committing a misdeed",
"word": "en flagrant délit"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "in the act of committing a misdeed",
"word": "auf frischer Tat"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "in the act of committing a misdeed",
"word": "in flagranti"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "in the act of committing a misdeed",
"word": "in flagranza di reato"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "in the act of committing a misdeed",
"word": "batom na cueca"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "na méste prestuplénija",
"sense": "in the act of committing a misdeed",
"word": "на ме́сте преступле́ния"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "s políčnym",
"sense": "in the act of committing a misdeed",
"word": "с поли́чным"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "in the act of committing a misdeed",
"word": "in fraganti"
},
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "in the act of committing a misdeed",
"word": "på bar gärning"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "in the act of committing a misdeed",
"word": "med byxorna nere"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "na klǎp",
"sense": "while performing sexual activity",
"word": "на клъп"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "while performing sexual activity",
"word": "med bukserne nede"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "while performing sexual activity",
"word": "in flagranti"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "while performing sexual activity",
"word": "pego de calças curtas"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "while performing sexual activity",
"word": "med byxorna nere"
}
],
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"in flagrante delicto"
],
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}
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"name": "ubor"
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"english": "If the prince conspired, it was found only as an accomplice to Rouber, Abatucci, and the other followers who had gathered around him to greet him, and who were arrested in flagrante delicto, while they were breakfasting at the same table.",
"ref": "1872 October 26, Östgöta Correspondenten, page 4:",
"text": "Om prinſen konſpirerade, kunde det endaſt wara som medbrottſling till Rouber, Abatucci och de andra anhängarne, ſom ſamlats omkring honom, för att helſa honom, och hwilka grepos in flagrante delicto, under det de frukoſterade wid ſamma bord.",
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"in flagrante delicto (in the act of committing a misdeed)"
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"(archaic) in flagrante delicto (in the act of committing a misdeed)"
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"word": "med byxorna nere"
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"word": "på bar gärning"
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"english": "A priest in Chevreuse was caught \"in flagrante delicto\" on Sunday during a confidential tête à tête with the 22-year-old wife of a rich clothing merchant.",
"ref": "1874 August 21, “Utrikes-Nyheter [Foreign News]”, in Dagens Nyheter, page 2:",
"text": "En prest i Chevreuse blef i söndags \"in flagrante delicto\" ertappad under en förtrolig tête à tête med en 22-årig hustru till en rik klädeshandlare.",
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"english": "On the way down, I come across two mating polyommatus icarus; in flagrante delicto, Linnaeus would had said with delight.",
"ref": "2007 June 10, Göteborgs-Posten, quoted in Korp – the corpus infrastructure of Språkbanken:",
"text": "På vägen ner stöter jag på två parande puktörneblåvingar; in flagrante delicto, hade Linné sagt med förtjusning.",
"type": "quote"
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"english": "Belgian police on Friday night arrested 25 people, most of them men, \"in flagrante delicto\", or literally with their pants down, as they held an illegal lockdown party on top of a bar in central Brussels. They were in the middle of a group sex party.",
"ref": "2020 December 1, Teresa Küchler, “EU-politiker greps på gruppsexfest i Bryssel [EU politicians arrested at group sex party in Brussels]”, in Svenska Dagbladet:",
"text": "Belgisk polis grep på fredagskvällen 25 personer, de flesta män, ”in flagrante delicto”, eller bokstavligen med byxorna nere, då de höll en illegal lockdownfest ovanpå en bar i Bryssels centrum. De var mitt uppe i ett gruppsexparty.",
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"word": "med byxorna nere"
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