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Hacer el payaso
how can we say this in English? It means to act in a silly way.
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You can also use the verb to clown or to clown around.
You can also use to horse around which is to clown around roughly.
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Thank you my best friends.
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Time and again I am amazed by similarities in expressions between Dutch and Spanish.. Perhaps this is due to events long ago, when the Spanish had a firm influence in The Netherlands..
In Dutch we have the word 'pias' (also 'paljas'), This is I suppose the exact same word as 'payaso', or otherwise obviously must be derived from a rootword that is similar. 'De pias uithangen' or 'de pias spelen' = hacer el payaso. pi·as de; m,v -sen rare kwibus; paljas http://www.vandale.nl/vandale/opzoek...zoekwoord=pias
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This reminds me of a quotation from Schiller, who has Don Carlos of Spain complain: 'Es tobt in meinen Niederlaendern'. So Spain obviously thought that Holland belonged to them.
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Carlos I otorgó la soberanía de los Países Bajos a Felipe II, cuando (ejem) éste todavía era rey de Inglaterra por su matrimonio con María I de Inglaterra.
By the way (or BTW ), payaso comes from the Italian word pagliaccio |
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