fall off the wagon

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fall off the wagon definition


  1. in.
    to resume drinking after having stopped. (The wagon is presumed to be the water wagon.) : It looks to me like he wanted nothing more than to fall off the wagon.
  2. in.
    to resume any previously stopped behavior including smoking, drug use, overeating, or any other disavowed behavior. : He's back to watching TV again. Fell off the wagon I guess.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Fall off the wagon is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
American Heritage
Idioms & Phrases

fall off the wagon

see off the wagon.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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