📚 Red-handed, adjective.
❓ Definition: Used to indicate that a person has been discovered in or just after the act of doing something wrong or illegal.
❗️ Examples:
1. I caught him red-handed, stealing a wallet.
2. He spends all of his waking hours hatching schemes to catch the thief red-handed.
3. Armed robbers were caught red-handed yesterday as they were about to carry out a raid on a security van.
4. Of course, the police caught the burglars red-handed.
5. It seems a rare occasion to catch a thief red-handed.
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