Advertisement

Advertisement

dead to rights



Discover More

Idioms and Phrases

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.

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement


dead tireddead to the world