Meaning:
be discovered in or just after the act of doing something wrong or illegal
Examples:
- She is caught red handed.
- It's not red handed if there is nothing in her hand.
- They accidentally put some up once and got caught red handed by their readers.
- The thief was caught red handed.
- Now don't mind! I've caught you red handed!
- I mean, you... you caught Javier red handed.
- He was caught red handed.
- To get caught red handed would be more problematic.
- Unless I was to help you catch him red handed, sir, in the very act of eloping.
- We often do not open our account books to auditors, let alone share the audited reports with our donors for fear of being caught red handed!