catch someone with their hand in the cookie jar

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Verb

catch someone with one's hand in the cookie jar (third-person singular simple present catches someone with one's hand in the cookie jar, present participle catching someone with one's hand in the cookie jar, simple past and past participle caught someone with one's hand in the cookie jar)

1. (idiomatic) To catch someone taking something that he or she is not entitled to.

Translations

Translations

• French: (informal) prendre la main dans le sac (fr), prendre en flagrant délit (fr), prendre sur le fait (fr), (colloquial) prendre le doigt dans le pot de confiture (fr)

• Italian: cogliere con le mani nella marmellata, beccare con le mani nella marmellata, cogliere in flagrante
• Swedish: ta med skägget i brevlådan