off the wagon

1. see on the wagon.

Example Sentences

It became a "darker show" after that, he said, as Sharon was diagnosed with cancer and Ozzy "fell off the wagon" with drugs and alcohol.

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There were periods when he appeared to have kicked his addictions - but he often fell off the wagon.

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"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."

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Within a couple of days, though, he was back off the wagon, tweeting: “You either die a Kennedy with a hole in the brain or live long enough to become a Kennedy with a hole in the brain.”

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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.

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