bang to rights

动词 v. 副词 adv.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To have sufficient, indisputable evidence that a person's actions are generally perceived to be wrong; to catch red-handed. UK,idiomatic,rare
    — I am as intent on banging them all to rights as the next bleeding heart middle-class liberal, but take a look at the record so far.
副词 adv.
  1. Red-handed, (caught) in the act. UK,idiomatic,not-comparable,usually
    — We had a man once who got caught with a bundle of railroad stocks. They got him bang to rights and would have shoved him, only[…] when he swore he’d found them, they couldn’t prove he hadn’t.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bang (adverb), to rights. not-comparable,usually
    — 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 us bang to rights. We have no lives. None. At all.”

词形变化

more bang to rights comparative most bang to rights superlative banged to rights alternative bangs to rights present,singular,third-person banging to rights participle,present banged to rights participle,past banged to rights past banged to rights alternative

词源

词源 1
From bang (“completely”) + to rights (“properly”). Originally US; attested from the start of the 20th century.
词源 2
From reinterpretation of bang (“completely”) as bang (“to handle noisily or violently”).
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