"catch red-handed" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: catches red-handed [present, singular, third-person], catching red-handed [participle, present], caught red-handed [participle, past], caught red-handed [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|catch<,,caught> red-handed}} 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. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Crime Related terms: hand in the cookie jar Translations (capture someone in the act of committing a crime): 當場捕獲 (Chinese Mandarin), 当场捕获 (dāngchǎng bǔhuò) (Chinese Mandarin), op heterdaad betrappen (Dutch), jäädä rysän päältä kiinni (Finnish), prendre la main dans le sac (French), cachar (Galician), coller na allada (Galician), auf frischer Tat ertappen (German), rajtakap (Hungarian), tetten ér (Hungarian), menangkap basah (Indonesian), cogliere in flagrante (Italian), cogliere sul fatto (Italian), cogliere con le mani nel sacco (Italian), cogliere con il sorcio in bocca (Italian), cogliere con le mani nella marmellata (Italian), łapać na gorącym uczynku [imperfective] (Polish), złapać na gorącym uczynku [perfective] (Polish), pegar no flagra (Portuguese), prinde cu mâța-n sac (Romanian), поймать с поличным (pojmatʹ s poličnym) (Russian), заста́ть на ме́сте преступле́ния (zastátʹ na méste prestuplénija) (Russian), поймать за руку (pojmatʹ za ruku) (Russian), ta på bar gärning (Swedish), ta med fingrarna i syltburken (Swedish), ta med fingrarna i kakburken (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-catch_red-handed-en-verb-InZTS5ss Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Mandarin terms with non-redundant manual transliterations

Inflected forms

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          "sense": "capture someone in the act of committing a crime",
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          "sense": "capture someone in the act of committing a crime",
          "word": "cogliere in flagrante"
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          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "capture someone in the act of committing a crime",
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      "word": "當場捕獲"
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      "sense": "capture someone in the act of committing a crime",
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      "sense": "capture someone in the act of committing a crime",
      "word": "prendre la main dans le sac"
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      "sense": "capture someone in the act of committing a crime",
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      "sense": "capture someone in the act of committing a crime",
      "word": "coller na allada"
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      "sense": "capture someone in the act of committing a crime",
      "word": "auf frischer Tat ertappen"
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      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "capture someone in the act of committing a crime",
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      "sense": "capture someone in the act of committing a crime",
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      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "capture someone in the act of committing a crime",
      "word": "cogliere in flagrante"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "capture someone in the act of committing a crime",
      "word": "cogliere sul fatto"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "capture someone in the act of committing a crime",
      "word": "cogliere con le mani nel sacco"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "capture someone in the act of committing a crime",
      "word": "cogliere con il sorcio in bocca"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "capture someone in the act of committing a crime",
      "word": "cogliere con le mani nella marmellata"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "capture someone in the act of committing a crime",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "łapać na gorącym uczynku"
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "capture someone in the act of committing a crime",
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      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "capture someone in the act of committing a crime",
      "word": "pegar no flagra"
    },
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      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "capture someone in the act of committing a crime",
      "word": "prinde cu mâța-n sac"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pojmatʹ s poličnym",
      "sense": "capture someone in the act of committing a crime",
      "word": "поймать с поличным"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "zastátʹ na méste prestuplénija",
      "sense": "capture someone in the act of committing a crime",
      "word": "заста́ть на ме́сте преступле́ния"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pojmatʹ za ruku",
      "sense": "capture someone in the act of committing a crime",
      "word": "поймать за руку"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "capture someone in the act of committing a crime",
      "word": "ta på bar gärning"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "capture someone in the act of committing a crime",
      "word": "ta med fingrarna i syltburken"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "capture someone in the act of committing a crime",
      "word": "ta med fingrarna i kakburken"
    }
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  "word": "catch red-handed"
}

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