Question: Why is it called "caught red handed"?
Answer: I found this : The phrase started life as redhand, a legal term from 15th century Scotland. It meant, basically, "red handed", as in caught red-handed. By the 16th century we find the Scottish phrase taken red-handed (or as the Scots put it, tane red-handed), and it wasn't until Walter Scott (a Scotsman) wrote Ivanhoe in 1819 that taken red-handed caught on in English and was caught red-handed by 1857. http://www.takeourword.com/TOW128/page2.html
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