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bang to rights adjective- denoting an absolute certainty that fully justifies arrest on a criminal charge, as when caught red-handed UK, 1904
Intensifies “to rights” (fairly, legally). - I expected the screw who sat in front of me to turn round and capture us bang to rights. — Frank Norman, Bang To Rights, p. 49, 1958
- [Y]ou’re here with the goods with the intent to supply. You’re bang to rights as we say in our end of the business. — J.J. Connolly, Know Your Enemy [britpulp], p. 158, 1999
- by extension from sense 1, describing a satisfactory state of affairs UK
- Now we’ve got everything bang to rights, we can lay off for a bit and have a smoke. — Julian Franklyn, 1962
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