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The original was posted on /r/thenetherlands by /u/DaytonaDemon on 2023-11-05 21:21:51.

The New Yorker writes of Frans Hals,

His early portrait of Pieter Cornelisz van der Mersch (1616), a satirist from Leiden, shows Hals already at full tilt, bearing a style that’s not too far-flung from where he would land fifty years later. Van der Mersch has a herring pinched in his right hand and a bundle of straw in the other. The gesture is a riff on a Dutch proverb that means something like “to take the piss out of someone.”

Ik kan er niet opkomen. What’s the proverb?