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in flagrante
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in flagrante (delicto)  (humorous)
if someone is discovered in flagrante delicto, they are discovered doing something wrong, especially having sex with someone who is not their husband or wife She came home to catch her husband in flagrante delicto with the next-door neighbour.


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When the stage is set, you start cheating on your husband and there is no return, unless you get caught in flagrante delicto by your home surveillance cameras or your husband''s spy cameras hidden cleverly around the house.
Yet, as a practical matter, unless caught in flagrante delicto, the unlawful-combatant terrorist presents doubt about whether he is really a terrorist-unlike, say, the captured Nazi soldier, who was unmistakably clad and fighting as such.
His holier-than-thou offspring, having been caught in flagrante, promises to come back and work for the public good in future.
 
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