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To complicate matters

Rizar el rizo — to loop the loop

Better safe than sorry

Más vale prevenir que curar

A piece of cake

Coser y cantar — to be a piece of cake

It's not to be taken lightly

No ser moco de pavo

To call a spade a spade

Al pan, pan y al vino, vino

All roads lead to Rome

Todos los caminos llevan a Roma

To hit the nail on the head

Dar en el clavo

Willy nilly

A troche y moche

Birds of a feather flock together

Dios los cría y ellos se juntan

Yeah, right!

¡Y un jamón!

To be in your element

Sentirse como pez en el agua

To walk on thin ice

Estar en la cuerda floja

To be a charlatan

Ser un cantamañanas

The early bird doesn't always catch the worm

No por mucho madrugar, amanece más temprano

The early bird catches the worm

A quien madruga, Dios le ayuda

Quite important, quintessential

De tomo y lomo

You can't take it back

Santa Rita, Rita, lo que se da, no se quita

To stick to your guns

Seguir en sus trece

All that glitters is not gold

No es oro todo lo que reluce

To wash your hands (of something)

Lavarse las manos

To have something on the tip of your tongue

Tener algo en la punta de la lengua

To beat around the bush

Marear la perdiz

The bark is worse than the bite

Perro ladrador, poco mordedor

To brand somebody

Colgar el sambenito

To be an open book

Ser como un libro abierto

To beat around the bush

Ir/Andar(se) por las ramas

To mislead, avoid

Dar largas

To arouse suspicion

Dar mala espina

Rumor has it

Malas lenguas

It's not the end of the world

Más se perdió en Cuba y volvieron cantando

No worries, you'll find it!

Lo que no se comen los ratones, sale por los rincones – You’ll find what you’ve lost

The cure is worse than the disease

Ser peor el remedio que la enfermedad

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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