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To be fickle, to flip-flop

Cambiar de chaqueta o ser un "chaquetero"

To complicate matters

Rizar el rizo — to loop the loop

To say something without meaning it

Decir algo con la boca pequeña

We both though the other would do it

Los unos por los otros, la casa sin barrer

Easier said than done, actions speak louder than words

Del dicho al hecho, hay un trecho

That's another story

Ser otro cantar

Silence is golden

En boca cerrada no entran moscas

A nonsensical discussion

Diálogo de besugos

To beat around the bush

Irse por los cerros de Úbeda

What's done is done, you only live once

Que me quiten lo bailado

To be on the ball

Estar al loro

All that glitters is not gold

No es oro todo lo que reluce

To find out the hard way

Enterarse de lo que vale un peine

A word is enough for the wise

A buen entendedor, pocas palabras bastan

Literally

Al pie de la letra

Wisdom comes with age

Más sabe el diablo por viejo que por diablo

It doesn't hurt to be polite

Lo cortés no quita lo valiente

Rizar el rizo — to loop the loop

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The expression rizar el rizo is very common in Spain and highly used in all sorts of contexts and situations. Literally it means to curl the curl, or curling the curl; which metaphorically translates to complicate matters even further for no apparent reason. Gilding the lily and to loop the loop may be fairly approximate English expressions to connote this meaning.

A few scenarios to use rizar el rizo:
A) Literally:
--rirar el rizo es un círculo vertical completo que un avión dibuja en el aire como parte de un espectáculo aéreo.
--una atracción en un parque de atraccion

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