red-handed

短语
FREQ #17683

a. 双手沾满鲜血的, 正在作案的

发音

AU

词形变化

more red-handed 比较级 most red-handed 最高级

别名

redhanded

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    Showing clear evidence of guilt; in the act of wrongdoing.

    正著

    正着

    当场

    现行犯

    双手沾满鲜血

    正在作案

    习语

    to catch red-handed

  2. 2.

    Deadly, bloody.

  3. 3.

    With hands that are red from blood.

    非正式

词汇关系

形容词

近义相关 1

guilty

词源

From red + handed, 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 dates back to at least the 15th century in medieval Scotland and Scots law. Sir Walter Scott's 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.

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