Caught red-handed. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
He was caught red-handed. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective, adverb : They caught him red-handed dipping into the till. From Dictionary.com.
Finally he caught two men red-handed, so to speak. From Wordnik.com. [Football Days Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball] Reference
I'll catch the rascals red-handed! 'roared Mr Clay. From Wordnik.com. [Sarah's School Friend] Reference
Coxine was caught red-handed, but Wallace got away. From Wordnik.com. [On the Trail of the Space Pirates] Reference
Crimps who were caught red-handed had short shrift. From Wordnik.com. [The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore] Reference
The "National Enquirer" caught him at that red-handed. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 12, 2008] Reference
So one night he stays late, catches the thief red-handed. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 19, 2008] Reference
This red-handed wretch will try to marry some aristocratic heiress. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
I'll have men watching day and night until we catch them red-handed. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls on Pine Island Or, A Cave and What It Contained] Reference
He was 'caught red-handed and never was brought to an honest trial.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Rim of the Desert] Reference
Those red-handed villains continue their insolent defiance of outraged law. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
But one night they burst open the door suddenly and I was caught red-handed. From Wordnik.com. [Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben] Reference
Meet the woman who is catching imposters red-handed ahead on AMERICAN MORNING. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 10, 2007] Reference
"Oh, he'll want to hide and capture the villains 'red-handed,' as he calls it.". From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls on Crystal Bay or, The Secret of the Red Oar] Reference
Just prospected 'round and came back unexpected, and caught one of them red-handed. From Wordnik.com. [The Rim of the Desert] Reference
They don ` t have her red-handed because none of this evidence is going to come in. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 24, 2007] Reference
Their work of humanity was felt to be too sacred for even red-handed War to disturb. From Wordnik.com. [Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812] Reference
He had been caught red-handed, and ten Chinamen were prepared to testify to the fact. From Wordnik.com. [Forty-one Thieves A Tale of California] Reference
Dare you reply, you scoundrels, you who are caught red-handed at the most horrible crime?. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2] Reference
Government to thwart the perpetration of the red-handed crimes contemplated by the leaders. From Wordnik.com. [The Great North-Western Conspiracy in All Its Startling Details] Reference
We've got the chance we have been waiting for -- the chance to catch those cutthroats red-handed!. From Wordnik.com. [Round Anvil Rock A Romance] Reference
"The Automobile Girls" it was who caught "Raffles" red-handed, and who saved Bab's snobbish cousin. From Wordnik.com. [The Automobile Girls in the Berkshires The Ghost of Lost Man's Trail] Reference
Recently, they caught four people red-handed, with antiquities in their hands, and took them to jail. From Wordnik.com. [DONNY GEORGE] Reference
Those bejeweled fingers, tremulously eager to caress, surely were not those of a red-handed murderer!. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
Caught red-handed, Mitsubishi agreed to recall some 620,000 cars and trucks made over the last 20 years. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret Files] Reference
The first ever relationship registry, CheaterAlert's mission is to catch cheating partners "red-handed.". From Wordnik.com. [Jill Di Donato: Your Cheatin' Heart] Reference
There was no interceding for the man, who had been caught red-handed, and he suffered the penalty of his crimes. From Wordnik.com. [The Liberty Boys Running the Blockade or, Getting Out of New York] Reference
Never before had he known this kind of hospitality to be tendered in a police station to a man arrested red-handed. From Wordnik.com. [The Grell Mystery] Reference
His mind was sensitive enough to sense the nearness of others, so there was no chance of his being caught red-handed. From Wordnik.com. [What The Left Hand Was Doing] Reference
This army fitly included three regiments of French soldiers, red-handed from the slaughter of the Huguenots; twelve hundred. From Wordnik.com. [The Vaudois of Piedmont A Visit to their Valleys] Reference
As Dr. Anstice says, guile must be met with guile, and the only way to catch this woman is to take her absolutely red-handed. From Wordnik.com. [Afterwards] Reference
That is why we suspected some of being snipers, and there are some cases on record where they were caught red-handed in the act. From Wordnik.com. ["The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders] Reference
A Spanish warship caught seven Somali pirates red-handed in early August, men who had been trying to waylay a Norwegian chemical tanker. From Wordnik.com. [Who's a Pirate? In Court, A Duel Over Definitions] Reference
Americans say no, and it will require but little to precipitate a bloody war, when labor, led by red-handed murderers, will enact in New. From Wordnik.com. [As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home] Reference
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