red-handed

Etymology
From, likening to a murderer with their hands red with the victim's blood. The phrase to be taken with red hand originally meant "to be caught in the act". The use of red hand in this sense goes back to 15th-century Scotland and Scots law. Ivanhoe (1819) contains the first recorded use of taken red-handed for someone apprehended in the act of committing a crime. The expression subsequently became more common as caught red-handed.

Adjective

 * 1)  Showing clear evidence of guilt; in the act of wrongdoing.
 * 2) Deadly, bloody.
 * 3)  With hands that are red from blood.
 * 1) Deadly, bloody.
 * 2)  With hands that are red from blood.
 * 1) Deadly, bloody.
 * 2)  With hands that are red from blood.
 * 1)  With hands that are red from blood.
 * 1)  With hands that are red from blood.
 * 1)  With hands that are red from blood.
 * 1)  With hands that are red from blood.

Usage notes

 * Almost always used with the verb catch.

Translations

 * Arabic: مُتَلَبَّس, جُرْم مَشْهُود
 * Bulgarian: на местопрестъплението
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 正着, , , 雙手沾滿鮮血, 正在作案
 * Czech: při činu
 * Danish: på fersk gerning
 * Dutch: op heterdaad
 * Finnish:
 * French:, en flagrant délit
 * German:, auf frischer Tat , bei der Tat
 * Italian: con le mani nel sacco, in flagranza
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 현행범
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Latin: in flagrante delicto
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: på fersk gjerning, på fersken
 * Nynorsk: på fersk gjerning, på fersken
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, , com a mão na massa
 * Romanian: cu mâna în sac
 * Russian: место преступления,
 * Spanish: en flagrancia, ,
 * Swedish: med fingrarna i syltburken,
 * Thai: ,
 * Turkish:, ,