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In the act of committing an error or crime, red-handed. For example, They caught the burglars dead to rights with the Oriental rugs . This phrase uses to rights in the sense of “at once.” [ Slang ; mid-1800s]Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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