on the hop vs red-handed

on the hop

prep
  • Playing truant from school. 

  • Spontaneous; unplanned. 

  • Unprepared; unready and unable to deal with something. 

red-handed

adj
  • Deadly, bloody. 

  • Showing clear evidence of guilt; in the act of wrongdoing. 

  • With hands that are red from blood. 

How often have the words on the hop and red-handed occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )