Ricemos el rizo

[poli]

Is this like guilding a lilly?
Is this term used outside of Spain?

[aleCcowaN]

AFAIK, only in Spain.

rizar el rulo = to overcomplicate something, complicate unnecessarily / to cause to be swamped with minute details

sometimes used -I think in a wrong way- as "to make things worse", "echar leña al fuego" or "eramos pocos, y parió la abuela".