Hacer el payaso

Hacer el payaso
 

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

Look here.

To act silly.
To mess around.

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.

Thank you my best friends.

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/opzoek...zoekwoord=pias

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 ;)

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