王本利先生批评《参考消息》上刊登的一篇文章用错了成语“上下其手”。“上下其手”比喻“玩弄手法,暗中作弊”,可是《参考消息》那篇文章把它当成“猥亵”理解了。王先生说,这显然是望文生义。(《咬文嚼字》2002年第3期第46页) 把“上下其手”当做“猥亵”用,这在香港、台湾、新加坡和马来西亚等地媒体上时有所见,大凡报道非礼一类的社会新闻,作者动辄就用“上下 Mr. Wang Beili criticized the “reference information” published an article with the wrong idioms “up and down the hand.” The “up and down hand” metaphor “cheat, secretly cheat,” but the article “reference information” as “indecent” understood. Mr. Wang said that this is obviously a literary meaning. (“Bite the Word” No. 3, 2002, p. 46) Use “up and down the hand” as “obscenity”, as it has often been seen in the media in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia, where social news, such as indecent assault, The author often use "up and down