Смысл: backhanded

backhanded[͵bækʹhændıd]
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<Í> 1. нанесённый тыльной стороной руки (об ударе)
he cut down the running man with a powerful backhanded blow - он сбил с ног бегущего сильным ударом наотмашь
2. с наклоном влево (о почерке)
3. 1) двусмысленный, сомнительный
backhanded compliment - сомнительный комплимент
2) косвенный
backhanded reminder - косвенное напоминание, намёк
4. неловкий, неуклюжий (особ. в работе); небрежный
5. свёрнутый, скрученный в обратную сторону (о верёвке)

catch red handed Идиома

catch (someone) red-handed

catch someone in the middle of doing something wrong The woman was caught red-handed at the store trying to steal some cosmetics.

caught red-handed

caught with evidence, caught in the act The smuggler was caught redhanded with a kilo of cocain.

high handed

superior, above other people We don't like managers who are high handed - high and mighty.

left-handed compliment

an ambiguous compliment interpreted as offensive He gave her a left-handed compliment when he said that her dyed hair looked nice.

underhanded

not legal, not according to rules, not above board Some people say the government was underhanded in dealing with the Indians.

cack-handed

clumsy, without manual dexterity

pay sb a back-handed compliment

Idiom(s): pay someone a back-handed compliment AND pay someone a left-handed compliment

Theme: COMPLIMENT

to give someone a false compliment that is really an insult.
• John said that he had never seen me looking better. I think he was paying me a left-handed compliment.
• I'd prefer that someone insulted me directly. I hate it when someone pays me a back-handed compliment—unless it's a joke.

go away empty-handed

Idiom(s): go away empty-handed

Theme: DEPART

to depart with nothing.
• I hate for you to go away empty-handed, but I cannot afford to contribute any money.
• They came hoping for some food, but they had to go away empty-handed.

come away empty-handed

Idiom(s): come away empty-handed

Theme: LACKING

to return without anything.
• All right, go gambling. Don't come away empty-handed, though.
• Go to the bank and ask for the loan again. This time don't come away empty-handed.

catch sb red-handed

Idiom(s): catch sb red-handed

Theme: CATCHING

to catch a person in the act of doing something wrong.
• Tom was stealing the car when the police drove by and caught him red-handed.
• Mary tried to cash a forged check at the bank, and the teller caught her red-handed.

catch (one) red-handed

To see, and conceivably apprehend, addition as they are accomplishing article (often article nefarious). The byword ability accept originally referred to claret on a murderer's hands. The badge bent the robbers amiss as they ransacked addition house. Timmy approved to get into the cookie jar again, but I bent him red-handed.Learn more: catch

catch someone red-handed

and catch someone flat-footedto bolt a being in the act of accomplishing article wrong. (Learn added bent red-handed.) Tom was burglary the car back the badge collection by and bent him red-handed. Mary approved to banknote a artificial analysis at the bank, and the teller bent her red-handed.Learn more: catch

catch red-handed

Also, catch in the act. Apprehend addition in the advance of wrongdoing, as in The boys were aggravating to abduct a car and the badge bent them red-handed, or He approved to bluff on the exam, but his abecedary absolved in and bent him in the act. The aboriginal appellation referred to claret on a murderer's easily and originally adumbrated alone that crime. Later it was continued to any offense. The alternative ( catch in the act) is a adaptation of the Latin in flagrante delicto, allotment of the Roman cipher and continued acclimated in English law. Learn more: catch

catch (someone) red-handed, to

To apprehend in the act of committing a crime. The term, which alludes to the attendance of claret on the easily of a murderer, originally referred alone to that crime. Later it was continued to beggarly the aforementioned as “to bolt in the act,” an English adaptation of the Latin in flagrante delicto, taken from the Roman cipher and continued acclimated in law. “I did but tie one fellow, who was taken red-handed,” wrote Sir Walter Scott in Ivanhoe (1819).Learn more: catch

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caught in the middle catch-as-catch-can catch sb red-handed catch sb off-balance catch sb off guard catch sb napping catch sb in the act catch one with one's pants down catch on to catch forty winks

English Vocalbulary

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