英语词汇caught red-handed的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	caught red-handed
词源	caught red-handed. To be taken with red hand in ancient times was to be caught in the act, like a murderer, his hands red with his victim’s blood. The use of red hand in this sense goes back to 15th-century Scotland and Scottish law. Scott’s Ivanhoe has the first recorded use of taken red-handed for someone apprehended in the act of committing a crime. Not long after, the expression became more common as caught red-handed.
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