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Red Handed

Meaning: caught in the act of doing something wrong.  The origin of this idiom was when banks used to place a long lasting dye on certain packets of money.  When they were robbed they tried to make certain that this was one of the packages given.  The crooks could be identified by the ones with red hands.
How to use in a sentence: His mom walked into the kitchen just as he was pulling a cookie out of the cookie jar.  He was caught red handed.

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