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bang to rights

Caught in the act.

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dead to rights

[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 […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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