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bang to rights

adverb 1
verb 1
forms 5

adverb1

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(UK) Red-handed, (caught) in the act.
- We had a man once who got caught with a bundle of railroad stocks. They got him bang to rights and would have shoved him, only[…] when he swore he’d found them, they couldn’t prove he hadn’t. — 1910

verb1

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(UK, rare) To have sufficient, indisputable evidence that a person's actions are generally perceived to be wrong; to catch red-handed.
- I am as intent on banging them all to rights as the next bleeding heart middle-class liberal, but take a look at the record so far. — 2006

forms

banged to rights · banging to rights · bangs to rights · more bang to rights · most bang to rights

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