brine the bird

delivering a particularly appropriate or skillful finger-extending gesture

After an idiot driver stopped short in front of him, Scott used one hand to steer the car into the other lane and the other to brine the bird at the other driver.

fail nephew

someone with limited talent who none the less advances in a line of work based on the success of their much more notable and interesting uncle

Ted's just a fail nephew, the only reason anyone takes him seriously is his uncle William Nordhaus is a famous climate economist