bang to rights | Idiomator

Meaning: (now chieflyBritish,idiomatic)Red-handed, (caught) in the act.1910December, George Allan England, “The Steeled Conscience”, inThe Railroad Man’s Magazine, New York: Frank A. Munsey Co.,page188:We had a man once who got caught with a bundle of railroad stocks.They got himbang to rightsand would have shoved him, only[…]when he swore he’d found them, they couldn’t prove he hadn’t.1919December 2, Charles W. Tyler, “Raw Silk”, inDetective Stories Magazine, volume XXVIII, New York:Street & Smith, page29:The silk! Hide it! Throw it away! If they get us with that—we’rebang to rights.2012, Officer ‘A’,The Crime Factory: The Shocking True Story of a Front Line CID Detective, Edinburgh: Mainstream,page218:Looking at the evidence, I’d assumed that the hapless pair wasbang to rightsand that we’d have little trouble placing him on remand and giving the law-abiding residents of Surrey a brief respite.; Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: seebang(adverb),to rights.2004, Brian S. McWilliams,Spam Kings, Sebastopol, California: O’Reilly Media, published2005,→ISBN,page69:Once, after a spammer trolled Nanae, accusing antis of having no life, Mad Pierre sarcastically responded that the spammer was correct. ¶ “Damn, you’ve got usbang to rights. We have no lives. None. At all.”2007, Neil Pearson,Obelisk: A History of Jack Kahane and the Obelisk Press, page479:Tyler tries to dismiss Vidal's characterization of him as a pseudo-intellectual buffoon, but succeeds only in demonstrating that Vidal had himbang to rights.2008, James Buchan,The gate of air:He wished he were in London, where a girl in a minicab would set himbang to rights.

Examples:

EN: i have been done bang to rights.
ES: He sido cogido con las manos en la masa.
EN: Caught bang to rights, you were.
ES: Te atraparon con las manos en la masa.
EN: So we've got you bang to rights and I'm tired of listening to your lies so much so that I'm not even bothering to record them.
ES: Así que te tenemos con las manos en la masa y estoy tan cansado de escuchar tus mentiras que ni siquiera me molesto en grabarlas.
EN: If any of your fingerprints are found on that money, we've got you bang to rights, you know that, don't you?
ES: Si alguna de tus huellas se encuentran en ese dinero, te tenemos, ¿ya lo sabes, no? ¿Me está tendiendo una trampa?
EN: Well, look, everyone saw it, so I'm bang to rights.
ES: En fin. Todo el mundo lo vio. No puedo ocultarlo.
ES: En fin. Todo el mundo lo vio. No puedo ocultarlo.
ES: En fin. Todo el mundo lo vio. No puedo ocultarlo.
EN: - We've got him bang to rights, Nicky.
ES: - Lo atrapamos justo en el acto, Nicky.
EN: Well, Inspector, it seems you have me bang to rights.
ES: Bueno, Inspector, parece que me ha atrapado.
EN: I'm bang to rights.
ES: Estaba con las manos en la masa.
EN: I had you bang to rights.
ES: Los tenía en mis manos.
EN: I heard your suspect in the Melanie murder is bang to rights.
ES: He oído que su sospechoso del asesinato de Melanie se ha negado a declarar.
EN: You couldn't be more bang to rights if you were wearing a stripy T-shirt and holding a swag bag.
ES: No podría ser más provecho a los derechos si estuviera usando un T-shirt rayas y la celebración de una bolsa de botín.
EN: Well, ten minutes ago I was locked up, bang to rights, - worrying about sharing a shower with a Russian drug baron from B block. Now we're free.
ES: Bueno, hace 10 minutos, estabamos en la cárcel, sin derecho alguno, preocupados por compartir ducha con un señor de la droga rusa del bloque B. Y ahora somos libres.
EN: I had you bang to rights, did I not?
ES: Te tenía acorralado, ¿no?
EN: I've got this bang to rights.
ES: - No, todo está bien.
EN: He had you bang to rights.
ES: Lo tenía acorralado.

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