it takes two to tangle
phraseEtymology Reconstruction of it takes two to tango, with tangle.
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Blame is to be laid on both parties in a conflict.
- Fee-fi-fo-fum It takes two to tangle and one to have won1985, J. G. Thirlwell, “Anything (Viva!)”, in Nail, performed by Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel: