on the wagon

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介词短语
  1. Abstaining from drinking any alcoholic drink, usually in the sense of having given it up (as opposed to never having partaken); teetotal. idiomatic
    — I wanted to git him some whisky, but he shuck his head. 'I'm on the water-cart,' sez he.
  2. Maintaining a program of self-improvement or abstinence from some other undesirable habit. broadly
    — He’s been on the smoking cessation wagon for two weeks now.
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see on, the, wagon.

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反义词
off the wagon fall off the wagon

词源

Originally on the water wagon or on the water cart, referring to carts used to hose down dusty roads: see the 1901 quotation below. The suggestion is that a person who is “on the wagon” is drinking water rather than alcoholic beverages. The term may have been used by the early 20th-century temperance movement in the United States; for instance, William Hamilton Anderson (1874 – c. 1959), the superintendent of the New York Anti-Saloon League, is said to have made the following remark about Prohibition: “Be a good sport about it. No more falling off the water wagon. Uncle Sam will help you keep your pledge.”
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