trip the light fantastic vs tango

tango vs trip the light fantastic

trip the light fantastic is not a noun while tango is a noun.

trip the light fantastic and tango both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
trip the light fantastic	No	No	Yes	No
tango	Yes	No	Yes	No

As verbs, tango is a hyponym of trip the light fantastic; that is, tango is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than trip the light fantastic:

trip the light fantastic: move in a pattern; usually to musical accompaniment; do or perform a dance
tango: dance a tango

Other hyponyms of trip the light fantastic include jive, hoof, clog, tap dance, belly dance, heel, shimmy, bebop, bop, bump, twist, waltz, waltz around, tap, tapdance, shag, foxtrot, contra danse, contradance, contredanse, country-dance, break-dance, break, break dance, cakewalk, conga, samba, two-step, Charleston, boogie, cha-cha, disco, mambo, polka, one-step, rhumba, rumba, mosh, slam, slam dance, thrash, jig, jitterbug, folk dance, square dance, quickstep, kick, skank, grind, twerk.

trip the light fantastic (noun)	tango (noun)
	a ballroom dance of Latin-American origin
	music written in duple time for dancing the tango

trip the light fantastic (verb)	tango (verb)
move in a pattern; usually to musical accompaniment; do or perform a dance	dance a tango

Difference between trip the light fantastic and tango

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