in the act

Prepositional phrase

 * 1)  In the process of doing something considered criminal or otherwise wrong;.
 * She denied it but she had been spotted in the act.
 * He was caught in the act in the store after hours.
 * He was caught in the act of climbing out the window.

Usage notes

 * Most commonly used in forms of the phrase catch in the act, or similar.

Synonyms

 * red-handed
 * in flagrante delicto

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish: på fersk gerning
 * Dutch: op heterdaad
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: auf frischer Tat
 * Norwegian: på fersk gjerning
 * Polish:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: huli sa akto