tango

Examples

• All

• Your girl is a hell of a tango dancer.

  Scent of a Woman (1992)

• Are the two of you doing the tango dance?

  Phua Chu Kang The Movie (2010)

• We just found the square where they're doing the tango and caught the very last second of it.

• Well, perhaps you would join me in a tango, Mademoiselle?

  Death on the Nile (1978)

• I made clothing by hand, clothing specifically for dancers of Argentine tango because we were both tango dancers.

• I do dance the waltz, the tango, the cha-cha, and the swing.

  Fiction book (2002)

• Then the couples' dances: the quick step, the slow fox, the polka, and the tango.

  Fiction book (1997)

• Gilles Marini and Peta Murgatroyd will be fusing an Argentine tango with a samba this week.

  Blog text (17)

• We took a tango lesson to learn the basic steps of this beautiful dance.

• During the festival, everyone gathered to enjoy watching the tango dancers on stage.

Idioms

I

it takes two to tango

• Informal

7.1

Both people share the blame for a problem

Compounds

H

horizontal tango

• NSFW

9.8

A joking way to talk about sex between two people or close dancing

W

whiskey tango foxtrot

• Offensive

9.9

A phrase people say as a joke when they feel shocked or confused

How Energetic

cancan

2 7.2

to samba

4.1

to dance

579 1.0

tango

35 3.5

waltz

24 3.4

Surface Forms

Etymology