Pasar por el aro

[sosia]

Escrito originalmente por Perikles

Oi!! If I were that old, I wouldn't be able to remember anything anyway.

Si estuviera fuera tan viejo, no podría acordarme de nada.

Si fuera/fuese tan viejo, no podría acordarme de nada.

[Perikles]

Escrito originalmente por sosia

Si fuera/fuese tan viejo, no podría acordarme de nada.

I got something right. Thanks.

[JPablo]

Well, thank you for the data on JC speaking habits... (Hey, we may be older than we thought...)

This all 'conversation' reminds me of Shakespeare and other things... (As in Have you lived before this life?...)

To die, perhaps to sleep; to sleep, perchance to dream.

And Calderón: La vida es sueño...

At any rate... thank you for refreshing memories...

Random House gives too,

5. the die is cast, the irrevocable decision has been made; fate has taken charge: The die is cast--I can't turn back.

And
to put somebody through the hoops will be in Spanish like hacérselas pasar negras a alguien (as per Oxford and Cambridge Klett) (A slightly different connotation than "hacer pasar por el aro")

To jump through the hoop seems to me more like the literal "pasar por el aro", like in a circus, not so much in the figurative sense of the Spanish... which I think it is best rendered with "toe the line"... (y sin chistar...)