on the wagon

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Abstaining from drinking alcoholic beverages, as in Don't offer her wine; she's on the wagon. This expression is a shortening of on the water wagon, referring to the horse-drawn water car once used to spray dirt roads to keep down the dust. Its present meaning dates from about 1900. The antonym off the wagon, used for a resumption of drinking, dates from the same period. B.J. Taylor used it in Extra Dry (1906): “It is better to have been on and off the wagon than never to have been on at all.”

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on the tip of one's tongue, on the town, on the up-and-up, on the uptake, on the verge of, on the wagon, on the warpath, on the watch, on the way, on the way out, on the whole

单词	on the wagon
释义	on the wagon SEE SYNONYMS FOR on the wagon ON THESAURUS.COM Abstaining from drinking alcoholic beverages, as in Don't offer her wine; she's on the wagon. This expression is a shortening of on the water wagon, referring to the horse-drawn water car once used to spray dirt roads to keep down the dust. Its present meaning dates from about 1900. The antonym off the wagon, used for a resumption of drinking, dates from the same period. B.J. Taylor used it in Extra Dry (1906): “It is better to have been on and off the wagon than never to have been on at all.” Words nearby on the wagon on the tip of one's tongue, on the town, on the up-and-up, on the uptake, on the verge of, on the wagon, on the warpath, on the watch, on the way, on the way out, on the whole The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Words related to on the wagon abstemious, dry, restrained, sober, abstaining, abstinent, drying out, nonindulgent, unintoxicated
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on the wagon

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