in the act, red-handed
Die Polizei erwischte den Taschendieb auf frischer Tat.
red-handed
köken: Literally, “with one's hands in the dough”.
Rusçaна ме́сте преступле́ния, с поли́чным
in the act (in the process of causing wrongdoing)
köken: Partial univerbation of heter + daad. Literally, “on the hot act”, i.e. “while the act is still hot”; more at heterdaad.
aile: heterdaad
red-handed, in flagrante delicto, in the act of committing a misdeed
köken: på (“on”) + bar (“bare”) + gärning (“act”)
De blev tagna på bar gärning
in flagrante delicto, in the act, red-handed (in the act of committing a misdeed)
eş: in flagranti, in flagrante delicto
köken: Literally, “in [the] hot deed”.
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in the act
köken: itse (“self”) + teossa (“in the act”)
in flagrante delicto; red-handed; in the act of committing a misdeed.
Tyven blev fanget på fersk gerning.
Norveççepå fersk gjerning
in the act; in flagrante delicto
köken: Calque of English [caught] in the act.