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Idiom

horizontal tango

Meaning

Sexual intercourse.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“They decided to do the horizontal tango last night.”

“After a romantic dinner and some wine, the couple retreated to the bedroom for a bit of the horizontal tango.”

“While the neighbors were busy with their horizontal tango, the rest of the apartment building remained blissfully unaware of the commotion behind the thin walls.”

Examples

simple

“They decided to do the horizontal tango last night.”

contextual

“After a romantic dinner and some wine, the couple retreated to the bedroom for a bit of the horizontal tango.”

complex

“While the neighbors were busy with their horizontal tango, the rest of the apartment building remained blissfully unaware of the commotion behind the thin walls.”

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