Hacer el payaso

[ROBINDESBOIS]

how can we say this in English? It means to act in a silly way.

[Rusty]

Look here (http://www.tomisimo.org/idioms/es/hacer-el-payaso-3564.html).

To act silly.
To mess around.

[poli]

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.

[ROBINDESBOIS]

Thank you my best friends.

[EmpanadaRica]

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. :D

pi·as de; m,v -sen rare kwibus; paljas
http://www.vandale.nl/vandale/opzoeken/woordenboek/?zoekwoord=pias

[Perikles]

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..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.

[EmpanadaRica]

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.

Oh yes.. there is very little doubt about that.. :D ;)

[irmamar]

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.

:p

By the way (or BTW ;) ), payaso comes from the Italian word pagliaccio :D