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dar más vueltas que una noria

English translation: to go around in circles | to go round and round

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Spanish term or phrase:dar más vueltas que una noria
English translation:to go around in circles | to go round and round
Entered by: David Russi

14:09 May 26, 2009
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Idioms / Maxims / Sayings
Spanish term or phrase: dar más vueltas que una noria
¿Cuál sería la expresión aproximada en inglés? No dispongo de más contexto.
Gracias.
Ana Gómez
Local time: 12:43
to go around in circles
Explanation:
Una posibilidad
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David Russi
United States
Local time: 04:43
Grading comment
¡Muchas gracias!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +4to go around in circles
David Russi
5beat around the bush
Wilsonn Perez Reyes
4 +1...like a dog chasing its tail
Lydia De Jorge
4go all over the place
Michael Powers (PhD)
4keep on turning, just like a water-wheel
Remy Arce
4go/move from one place to another getting nowhere // like a merry-go-round
Alejandro Alcaraz Sintes
3spinning around like a whirling dervish
Brett Thomas


  

Answers


2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
go all over the place


Explanation:
Oxford

Mike :)

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Note added at 2 mins (2009-05-26 14:12:24 GMT)
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"tuve que dar más vueltas que una noria: I had to go all over the place"

Michael Powers (PhD)
United States
Local time: 06:43
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 58
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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
to go around in circles


Explanation:
Una posibilidad

David Russi
United States
Local time: 04:43
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 52
Grading comment
¡Muchas gracias!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Christopher Fitzsimons: Yes, because obviosuly the noria is the fair wheel so it's the idea of going round and round in circles
13 mins
agree  Eileen Banks
16 mins
agree  Gerard Jimenez (X): It's like Dead or Alive's You spin me right round (like a record) baby ... Sorry for that, I just like that song...
32 mins
agree  Matt Horsman: definitely. Going round in circles
37 mins
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26 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
keep on turning, just like a water-wheel


Explanation:
- Treads: lyricsHe said "Now, Life's like a waterwheel. Keeps turnin' round ... Round & round & round it goes. And it keeps on turnin' just like a waterwheel ...
www.jonibishop.com/treadslyrics.cfm - 35k - Cached - Similar pages

Remy Arce
United States
Local time: 06:43
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 12
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34 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
spinning around like a whirling dervish


Explanation:
A sufi form of meditation by spinning

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Note added at 36 mins (2009-05-26 14:46:10 GMT)
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it depends if the context gives the idea of going in circles or wandering around aimlessly


    Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sufi_whirling
Brett Thomas
United Kingdom
Local time: 11:43
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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48 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
go/move from one place to another getting nowhere // like a merry-go-round


Explanation:
Ups and Downs of Christian Life -- Trusting God in Hard Times
Sometimes life feels like a roller coaster of ups and downs, and other times like a merry-go-round, going around and around but seemingly getting nowhere. ...
www.faithclipart.com/guide/christian-principles/faith/ups-a... christian-life.html

elpueblodeceuta.es - [ Translate this page ]
Para todos ellos la vida es como una noria que gira y gira pero, al final, siempre para en el mismo lugar. Ellos, cuando se suben en esa noria, ...
www.elpueblodeceuta.es/200706/20070619/200706198102.html
Other meanings, apart from "not finding one's way":

In the appropriate context, the expression could mean "to be undecided, not to make up one's mind":
que tal el hp nw 9440? - Comunidad N3D - [ Translate this page ]
5 posts - 3 authors - Last post: 20 Nov 2006
hola a tod@s!!! como muxos por aqui ando super liado ante la compra de un portatil. le estoy dando mas vueltas que una noria!! y ya estoy un ...
foro.noticias3d.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=169677

= drive somebody crazy by not providing sth or by asking for yet something more, e.g., information, documents...: like a merry-go-round".
Hipotecas - Despues de pagada la hipoteca - [ Translate this page ]
Te agradezco muchiiiisimo tu aclaracion, esto es mejor que ir a un banco y que me den mas vueltas que una noria, con gente asi estan mas ...
www.todoexpertos.com/categorias/dinero-y-servicios/hipoteca... 1854386/despues-de-pagada-la-hipoteca
merry-go-round - definition of merry-go-round by the Free Online ...
When I couldn't see, or feel, an' when my knees was shakin an my head goin' like a merry-go-round, I'd fall safe into clenches just the same. ...
www.thefreedictionary.com/merry-go-round - 35k

Alejandro Alcaraz Sintes
Spain
Native speaker of: Spanish
PRO pts in category: 8
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
beat around the bush


Explanation:
Otra opción.

Wilsonn Perez Reyes
El Salvador
Local time: 04:43
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 12
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
...like a dog chasing its tail


Explanation:
sugg

Lydia De Jorge
United States
Local time: 05:43
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 94

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  MPGS: :)
2 hrs
  -> Gracias!
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