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etymology - Origin of the expression Dead to rights? - English . . . DEAD TO RIGHTS, caught, with positive proof of guilt So it appears that Farmer Henley didn't fully grasp the sense of "dead to rights" as the phrase was used in the latter half of the nineteenth century, though the meaning that Slang and Its Analogues ascribes to the term certainly does appear in some contemporaneous writings
meaning - What does to be dead to {something} mean? - English . . . What does dead to {something} mean? Internet research brings up: "dead to the world" meaning "sound asleep" "dead to rights" meaning "in the act, guilty without question" "dead to me" meaning "as far as I'm concerned, we are no longer friends (or family) In my mind, it's as if you are dead" None of these seem relevant to the quoted context
etymology - Why is something dead straight? - English Language . . . The role of "dead" in your usage examples is similar to the role of "dead" in the phrase "dead simple", which is the subject of this question: Where does the phrase “dead simple” originate? The answer provides a definition of "dead" from Etymonline Used from 16c in adjectival sense of "utter, absolute, quite" (as in dead drunk, first attested 1590s; dead heat, 1796) as well as some
What is an alternative (more positive) analogy to beating a dead horse? The phrase beating a dead horse almost fits the bill, but a dead horse refers to a subject that is no longer relevant or useful, and this project is both relevant and useful, it's just considered a low priority Without giving the subject a negative label, is there an analogy I can use to express my persistence and frustration?
apostrophe - Is em short for him, them or both? - English . . . One suspect caught dead to rights: "Book'm Danno—murder one " Multiple suspects caught dead to rights: "Book'm, Danno—murder one " But I have no doubt that that so punctilious an investigator would have kept his written instructions exact and distinct—either "book 'im" or "book 'em," as their numbers dictated
slang - Question regarding the usage of Bang - English Language . . . They had him bang to rights (i e He was most definitely guilty) I'm still confused as to where this usage originated Brian Hooper suggests they could all be a variant of bang-up, which sounds plausible It would also appear from the comments that a few of these uses (which I can attest are real and recognisable phrases
word choice - Which is more correct: denied of or denied to . . . Chris had pruned the tree of its dead branches His mother would usually trim Chris' steak of its fat Chris cleaned the yard of fallen leaves The court cleared Chris of all charges It's possible They denied Chris his rights occasional gets shifted to They denied Chris of his rights because it "feels like" deny is a standard taking-away
A verb that means “to prove someone is guilty of a crime” Questions If “to frame” someone is to plant evidence that ‘proves’ an innocent person is guilty, is there a verb that means: to find evidence that unequivocally proves a person is guilty? Perhaps there is an obscure legal term hidden in OED, or maybe an obsolete expression, which escapes me Here is my student's sentence with the blank space Lucy realized she had the proof to
idioms - Origin of being caught flat-footed - English Language . . . The first figurative, nonsports instance of flat-footed in the sense of "by surprise" or "dead to rights" or "with one's guard down" that I could find in a series of Google Books searches is from Cosmopolitan, volumes 61–62 (1916) [combined snippets]: