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off the wagon

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Definition


Starting to drink alcohol after having quit. To break a commitment to avoid alcohol, coffee, fatty foods, etc.

Context : Social Life
Category: Idiom
Semantic:

Usage of “off the wagon”

  1. After staying away from alcohol for a few years, I fell off the wagon.

Examples of idiom “off the wagon” from Twitter
  • Default avatar for Twitter user '363nomore'
    363nomore:

    Just for a day I would like to stick to my food plan without falling off the wagon.

  • Default avatar for Twitter user 'DonP'
    DonP:

    It's only one more coffee. I haven't fallen off the wagon. It's just one more! #dontjudgeme

  • Default avatar for Twitter user 'Lnyfaith'
    Lnyfaith:

    @MisterSabio cool word. Might go to off the wagon bar with Andrew later this evening for several drinks then going to nyu.

  • Default avatar for Twitter user 'ajarzab'
    ajarzab:

    I just got a free D. Coke from the vending machine. Score! I've fallen off the wagon HARD post-Lent, y'all. This is not good.