catch red-handed (third-person singular simple present catches red-handed, present participle catching red-handed, simple past and past participle caught red-handed)
- (transitive) To discover or capture someone in the act of committing a crime.
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capture someone in the act of committing a crime
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 當場捕獲／当场捕获 (dāngchǎng bǔhuò)
- Dutch: op heterdaad betrappen
- Finnish: jäädä rysän päältä kiinni (fi)
- French: prendre la main dans le sac (fr)
- Galician: cachar, coller na allada
- German: auf frischer Tat ertappen
- Hungarian: rajtakap (hu), tetten ér (hu)
- Indonesian: menangkap basah (id)
- Italian: cogliere in flagrante, cogliere sul fatto, cogliere con le mani nel sacco, cogliere con il sorcio in bocca, cogliere con le mani nella marmellata
- Polish: łapać na gorącym uczynku impf, złapać na gorącym uczynku pf
- Portuguese: pegar no flagra
- Romanian: prinde cu mâța-n sac
- Russian: поймать с поличным (pojmatʹ s poličnym), заста́ть на ме́сте преступле́ния (zastátʹ na méste prestuplénija), поймать за руку (ru) (pojmatʹ za ruku)
- Swedish: ta på bar gärning, ta med fingrarna i syltburken, ta med fingrarna i kakburken
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