Pieter Bruegel's Neverlandish Proverbs

In the Berlin Staatliche Art Museum, it displays Pieter Bruegel’s iconic oil on oak panel. It’s entitle “Neverlandish Proverbs,” which highlights 100 idioms that recognise sin, folly, and obscure activities. Specifically, in the lower right hand panel, six people can be found doing bizarre activities, such as, struggling to reach for a loaf of bread, looking for a small axe, yawning at an oven, and intensely playing tough-of-war with another man. These actions may seem arbitrary, but each action and object has a specific proverb associated to it.
For example, the distressed woman kneeling over a spilt bucket of porridge struggling to put the porridge back into the bucket; “He who has spilt his porridge cannot scrape it up again,” means not