{"id":18466,"date":"2019-11-02T14:51:18","date_gmt":"2019-11-02T14:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=18466"},"modified":"2019-11-02T14:51:18","modified_gmt":"2019-11-02T14:51:18","slug":"fields-and-warriors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=18466","title":{"rendered":"Fields and Warriors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The expression <strong>&#8220;it takes two to tango&#8221;<\/strong> means that two people are needed for certain activities, or that both people involved in a particular activity or situation share equal responsiblity for it.<\/p>\n<p>It apparently comes from the 1952 song <em>Takes Two to Tango<\/em> by Al Hoffman and Dick Manning [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theidioms.com\/takes-two-to-tango\/\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/phy0X4tWFGU\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In Russian an equivalent idiom is <strong>\u043e\u0434\u0438\u043d \u0432 \u043f\u043e\u043b\u0435 \u043d\u0435 \u0432\u043e\u0438\u043d<\/strong> (odin v pole ne boin), or &#8220;one in the field is not a warrior&#8221;. Perhaps this comes from the idea that a warrior with nobody to fight againt on a battle field is not really a warrior. Does anybody know the origins of this phrase?<\/p>\n<p>This idiom is also translated as &#8220;one man is an island&#8221;, &#8220;safety in numbers&#8221;, &#8220;you don&#8217;t have to do this alone&#8221; or &#8220;you never get far on your own&#8221;. Some examples of how it&#8217;s used include:<\/p>\n<p>\u041e\u0434\u0438\u043d \u0432 \u043f\u043e\u043b\u0435 \u043d\u0435 \u0432\u043e\u0438\u043d, \u043a\u0430\u043a \u0431\u044b \u043a\u043e\u043c\u0443-\u0442\u043e \u044d\u0442\u043e\u0433\u043e \u043d\u0435 \u0445\u043e\u0442\u0435\u043b\u043e\u0441\u044c.<br \/>\n<em>No man is an island however much they want to be.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u041c\u043d\u0435 \u043e\u043d\u0438 \u0442\u043e\u0436\u0435 \u043d\u0435 \u043d\u0440\u0430\u0432\u044f\u0442\u0441\u044f, \u043d\u043e \u043e\u0434\u0438\u043d \u0432 \u043f\u043e\u043b\u0435 \u043d\u0435 \u0432\u043e\u0438\u043d.<br \/>\n<em>I don&#8217;t like them either, but this war is bigger than us.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u041d\u043e \u0442\u044b \u0436\u0435 \u043f\u0440\u0435\u043a\u0440\u0430\u0441\u043d\u043e \u043f\u043e\u043d\u0438\u043c\u0430\u0435\u0448\u044c, \u0447\u0442\u043e \u043e\u0434\u0438\u043d \u0432 \u043f\u043e\u043b\u0435 \u043d\u0435 \u0432\u043e\u0438\u043d.<br \/>\n<em>But right about now, my army-of-one situation is not cutting it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.reverso.net\/russian-english\/%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BD%20%D0%B2%20%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B5%20%D0%BD%D0%B5%20%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B8%D0%BD\/forced\">Reverso<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Are there interesting equivalent idioms in other languages?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The expression &#8220;it takes two to tango&#8221; means that two people are needed for certain activities, or that both people involved in a particular activity or situation share equal responsiblity for it. It apparently comes from the 1952 song Takes Two to Tango by Al Hoffman and Dick Manning [source]. In Russian an equivalent idiom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,52,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-russian","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18466"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18472,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18466\/revisions\/18472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}