Idiom
bang to rights
Meaning
Red-handed, (caught) in the act.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The police caught the thief bang to rights.”
“The manager walked into the office and caught the employee stealing supplies bang to rights.”
“Having been caught bang to rights by the security cameras, the suspect had no choice but to confess to the crime.”
Examples
simple
“The police caught the thief bang to rights.”
contextual
“The manager walked into the office and caught the employee stealing supplies bang to rights.”
complex
“Having been caught bang to rights by the security cameras, the suspect had no choice but to confess to the crime.”
Origin
From a reinterpretation of *bang*, meaning completely, as *bang* in the sense of handling an object noisily or violently.
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