falls off the wagon
Breaks sobriety again
Falls off the wagon means to resume drinking alcohol after a period of abstinence, or more broadly, to relapse into any habit one had been trying to quit: He was sober for two years before he fell off the wagon.
The wagon in question was originally a water wagon—if you're on it, you're drinking water instead of liquor.
- habitSettled regular tendency
- relapseReturn to former illness
- sobrietyUnimpaired mental state
- guiltMoral self-reproach
- temptationUrge toward the unwise
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