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two engines pretending to be one, trust mistaken for athletic ability.
means Two or more things arranged or working one behind the other, or together toward the same end — as in a bicycle built for two or people acting in coordination.
from A bit of schoolboy Latin wit baked into English. Latin 'tandem' actually means 'at length' or 'at last' (in time), but some 18th-century joker punned on it to mean 'lengthwise' — describing a carriage with horses hitched one behind the other rather than side by side. The classical joke stuck, and the word later rolled onward to bicycles and any in-line, cooperative arrangement.
- latin joke
- means 'at length,' originally student slang mocking single-file horses
- front seat
- the only one who steers and sees ahead
- back seat
- pedals blind, prays often, captains nothing
- divorce machine
- nickname earned by couples who tried one
- world record
- longest tandem bike held over 40 riders
tour de france — teams of cyclists racing together across france, established 1903
ice dance — olympic figure skating discipline requiring two skaters in synchronized pairs