The police caught the burglar red-handed.
Source: tatoeba (238264)
Red-handed
Synonyms for "red-handed" (15 found)
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Closest matches (3)
Strong matches (5)
Adverb(1 words)
Related words (7)
Adverb(1 words)
Prep_phrase(1 words)
Adjective(1 words)
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5 entriesderived
2 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
51 translations across 25 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- جُرْم مَشْهُود adj (in the act of wrongdoing)
- مُتَلَبَّس adj (in the act of wrongdoing)
Bulgarian
1 entries- на местопрестъплението adj (in the act of wrongdoing)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 正在作案 adj (in the act of wrongdoing)
- 正着 adj (in the act of wrongdoing)
- 正著 adj (in the act of wrongdoing)
- 現行犯 /现行犯 adj (in the act of wrongdoing)
Czech
1 entries- při činu adj (in the act of wrongdoing)
Danish
1 entries- på fersk gerning adj (in the act of wrongdoing)
Dutch
1 entries- op heterdaad (betrapt) adj (in the act of wrongdoing)
Esperanto
2 entries- en loko de krimo adj (in the act of wrongdoing)
- ĉe krimo adj (in the act of wrongdoing)
Finnish
1 entries- rysän päältä adj (in the act of wrongdoing)
French
2 entries- en flagrant délit adj (in the act of wrongdoing)
- la main dans le sac adj (in the act of wrongdoing)
German
3 entries- auf frischer Tat (ertappt) adj (in the act of wrongdoing)
- bei der Tat adj (in the act of wrongdoing)
- in flagranti (ertappt) adj (in the act of wrongdoing)
Italian
2 entries- con le mani nel sacco adj (in the act of wrongdoing)
- in flagranza adj (in the act of wrongdoing)
Japanese
1 entries- 現行犯 adj (in the act of wrongdoing)
Korean
1 entries- 현행범 adj (in the act of wrongdoing)
Latin
1 entries- in flagrante delicto adj (in the act of wrongdoing)
Northern Kurdish
2 entries- di ser de girtin adj (in the act of wrongdoing)
- li ser sûc girtin adj (in the act of wrongdoing)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- på fersk gjerning adj (in the act of wrongdoing)
- på fersken adj (in the act of wrongdoing)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- på fersk gjerning adj (in the act of wrongdoing)
- på fersken adj (in the act of wrongdoing)
Polish
1 entries- na gorącym uczynku adj (in the act of wrongdoing)
Portuguese
3 entries- com a boca na botija adj (in the act of wrongdoing)
- com a mão na massa adj (in the act of wrongdoing)
- em flagrante adj (in the act of wrongdoing)
Romanian
1 entries- cu mâna în sac adj (in the act of wrongdoing)
Russian
2 entries- на ме́сте преступле́ния adj (in the act of wrongdoing)
- с поли́чным adj (in the act of wrongdoing)
Spanish
4 entries- con las manos en la masa adj (in the act of wrongdoing)
- en flagrancia adj (in the act of wrongdoing)
- en flagrante adj (in the act of wrongdoing)
- en fragante adj (in the act of wrongdoing)
Swedish
2 entries- med fingrarna i syltburken adj (in the act of wrongdoing)
- på bar gärning adj (in the act of wrongdoing)
Thai
2 entries- คาหนังคาเขา adj (in the act of wrongdoing)
- จะจะ adj (in the act of wrongdoing)
Turkish
3 entries- cürmü meşhut adj (in the act of wrongdoing)
- meşhut suç adj (in the act of wrongdoing)
- suçüstü adj (in the act of wrongdoing)
Sample sentences
20 total sentences available.
The thief was arrested red-handed.
Source: tatoeba (278625)
She was caught red-handed trying to steal a necklace.
Source: tatoeba (311911)
They were caught red-handed.
Source: tatoeba (1147301)
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