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on the wagon

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Abstaining from drinking any alcoholic drink, usually in the sense of having given it up (as opposed to never having partaken); teetotal.

Other meanings

2. phrase

Maintaining a program of self-improvement or abstinence from some other undesirable habit.

3. phrase

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see on, the, wagon.

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