disobediently taking <span class="searchmatch">cookies</span> to snack on, hoping <span class="searchmatch">their</span> parents won't hear. <span class="searchmatch">hand</span> <span class="searchmatch">in</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">cookie</span> <span class="searchmatch">jar</span> (plural <span class="searchmatch">hands</span> <span class="searchmatch">in</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">cookie</span> <span class="searchmatch">jar</span> or <span class="searchmatch">hands</span> <span class="searchmatch">in</span> <span class="searchmatch">cookie</span> <span class="searchmatch">jars</span>) Used metaphorically...
<span class="searchmatch">catches</span> <span class="searchmatch">someone</span> <span class="searchmatch">with</span> a <span class="searchmatch">hand</span> <span class="searchmatch">in</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">cookie</span> <span class="searchmatch">jar</span> third-person singular simple present indicative of <span class="searchmatch">catch</span> <span class="searchmatch">someone</span> <span class="searchmatch">with</span> a <span class="searchmatch">hand</span> <span class="searchmatch">in</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">cookie</span> <span class="searchmatch">jar</span>...
catching <span class="searchmatch">someone</span> <span class="searchmatch">with</span> a <span class="searchmatch">hand</span> <span class="searchmatch">in</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">cookie</span> <span class="searchmatch">jar</span> present participle and gerund of <span class="searchmatch">catch</span> <span class="searchmatch">someone</span> <span class="searchmatch">with</span> a <span class="searchmatch">hand</span> <span class="searchmatch">in</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">cookie</span> <span class="searchmatch">jar</span>...
red-<span class="searchmatch">handed</span>) (transitive) To discover or capture <span class="searchmatch">someone</span> <span class="searchmatch">in</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> act of committing a crime. capture <span class="searchmatch">someone</span> <span class="searchmatch">in</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> act of committing a crime <span class="searchmatch">hand</span> <span class="searchmatch">in</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> cookie...
dans le sac (transitive, informal) to bust, to <span class="searchmatch">catch</span> red-<span class="searchmatch">handed</span>, to <span class="searchmatch">catch</span> <span class="searchmatch">with</span> one's <span class="searchmatch">hand</span> <span class="searchmatch">in</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">cookie</span> <span class="searchmatch">jar</span> Synonym: prendre en flagrant délit prendre quelqu'un...
caught <span class="searchmatch">with</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">cookie</span> <span class="searchmatch">jar</span> cony-<span class="searchmatch">catch</span> couldn't <span class="searchmatch">catch</span> a cold dog that caught <span class="searchmatch">the</span> car dog who caught <span class="searchmatch">the</span> tire don't sell <span class="searchmatch">the</span> skin till you have caught <span class="searchmatch">the</span> bear...
<span class="searchmatch">in</span> <span class="searchmatch">hand</span> <span class="searchmatch">catch</span> <span class="searchmatch">someone</span> <span class="searchmatch">with</span> a <span class="searchmatch">hand</span> <span class="searchmatch">in</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">cookie</span> <span class="searchmatch">jar</span> chancery <span class="searchmatch">hand</span> change <span class="searchmatch">hand</span> change <span class="searchmatch">hands</span> charge-<span class="searchmatch">hand</span> chargehand charge <span class="searchmatch">hand</span> China <span class="searchmatch">Hand</span> China <span class="searchmatch">hand</span> clawhand...
<span class="searchmatch">handed</span>, likening to a murderer <span class="searchmatch">with</span> <span class="searchmatch">their</span> <span class="searchmatch">hands</span> red <span class="searchmatch">with</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> victim's blood. <span class="searchmatch">The</span> phrase to be taken <span class="searchmatch">with</span> red <span class="searchmatch">hand</span> originally meant "to be caught <span class="searchmatch">in</span> the...