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phr. (context US idiomatic English) With sufficient evidence to establish responsibility definitively.
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Dead to Rights is a third-person action video game produced by Namco. It was released in 2002 as a timed exclusive for the Xbox, and releases for the PlayStation 2 and Nintendo GameCube followed thereafter. A year after its console debut, the game was released for Microsoft Windows. It was followed by Dead to Rights II in 2004/2005 and Dead to Rights: Retribution on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2010.
Dead to Rights is a top-down shooter for the Game Boy Advance. It is loosely based on the original Dead to Rights console game.
Dead to Rights is a video game series focusing on Jack Slate, a police officer in the fictional Grant City, and his K-9 partner Shadow. There are four games in the series.
Usage examples of "dead to rights".
I hadn't lost my temper or my dignity, and there was no danger of my doing so nownot when I had him dead to rights, under my thumb and in my power.
I think they are just a-settin' back waitin' for you to get bogged down or in some corner of the breaks where they'll have you dead to rights.
I mean that dentist appointment of Harry's has them dead to rights and he couldn't do a damn thing about it even if he wanted to, now what was I talking about.
Now we intended to catch him dead to rights, and get him to squeal, to rat out his gang of nefarious hoodlums.