it takes two to tango By Cecilia Brabin | January 23, 2009 it takes two to tango if more than one person is involved in a problem more than one must be to blame You can’t just blame Steve for the failure of the project. He was part of a team; and it takes two to tango. find out more about this word or phrase Posted in Word of the Day and tagged General idioms, I, Music idioms, Saying of the week