Brewer's: Red-handed

In the very act; with red blood still on his hand.

“I had some trouble to save him from the fury of those who had caught him red-handed.” —The Times (a correspondent).

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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