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off the wagon
Idioms and Phrases
see on the wagon .Example Sentences
"I was a fitness fanatic. I went to the gym practically every day. I don't know what happened, why I fell off the wagon."
Within a couple of days, though, he was back off the wagon, tweeting: “You either die a Kennedy with a hole in the brain or live long enough to become a Kennedy with a hole in the brain.”
She started smoking when she was 13; when I first visited her Jersey City, N.J., studio last April, she was trying not to fall off the wagon.
That well-intended goal met the same end as most New Year’s resolutions; I soon fell off the wagon and wrote more columns about Trump in 2023 than I had the prior year.
And it feels much more common now — thanks in part to events like Dry January and Sober October — to take temporary breaks from drinking without the stigma attached to “falling off the wagon.”
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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