- dead to rights
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phrasal
with no chance of escape or excuse ; red-handed <had him dead to rights for the robbery>
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
dead to rights
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dead to rights — {adv. phr.}, {informal} Without a chance of escaping blame; proven wrong. * /Mother had Bob dead to rights, because she caught him with his hand in the cookie jar./ * /The police caught the man dead to rights./ … Dictionary of American idioms
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dead to rights — adv, adj American an American version of the British bang to rights. Dead to rights is probably the original form of the phrase, dating from the 19th century and now rarely, if ever, heard in Britain. ► Dead is used here in its common colloquial… … Contemporary slang
dead to rights — adverb With sufficient evidence to establish responsibility definitively. Because of the video replay, the ref had him dead to rights on the penalty. Syn: bang to rights, red handed … Wiktionary
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