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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: 鈥淵ou either die a Kennedy with a hole in the brain or live long enough to become a Kennedy with a hole in the brain.鈥
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鈥檚 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 鈥 thanks in part to events like Dry January and Sober October 鈥 to take temporary breaks from drinking without the stigma attached to 鈥渇alling off the wagon.鈥
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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