shàng​xià​qí​shǒu

to commit fraud

上下其手 shàng​xià​qí​shǒu
to commit fraud
To engage in collusion or manipulate facts for personal gain; to practice fraud through secret signals or trickery. This idiom originates from a historical account in the 左传 zuǒ​zhuàn where hand signals were used to unfairly influence a witness.

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Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)