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In Flagrante Delicto

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Red-handed; in the very fact. “Il a été pris en flagrant délit,” i.e. “Sur le fait.”

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Impropriator
Improve the Occasion (To)
Improvisators
Improvisatrix or Improvisatrice
In Cæna Domini
In Commendam (Latin)
In Esse (Latin)
In Extenso (Latin)
In Extremis
In Fieri
In Flagrante Delicto
In for a Penny in for a Pound
In for It
In Forma Pauperis
In Gremio Legis
In Limine (Latin)
In Loco Parentĭs
In Medias Res
In Memoriam
In Nubibus
In Partibus [Infidelium]