tango
verb/ˈtæŋɡəʊ/
/ˈtæŋɡəʊ/
[intransitive]Verb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they tango | /ˈtæŋɡəʊ/ /ˈtæŋɡəʊ/ |
| he / she / it tangoes | /ˈtæŋɡəʊz/ /ˈtæŋɡəʊz/ |
| past simple tangoed | /ˈtæŋɡəʊd/ /ˈtæŋɡəʊd/ |
| past participle tangoed | /ˈtæŋɡəʊd/ /ˈtæŋɡəʊd/ |
| -ing form tangoing | /ˈtæŋɡəʊɪŋ/ /ˈtæŋɡəʊɪŋ/ |
- to dance the tangoWord Originlate 19th cent.: from Latin American Spanish, perhaps of African origin.
Idioms
See tango in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryit takes two to tango
- (informal) used to say that two people or groups, and not just one, are responsible for something that has happened (usually something bad)
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