fall off the wagon
informalto start drinking alcohol, after a period when you have drunk none:
When her husband died, she fell off the wagon.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Drunkenness & sobriety
- a drop too much (to drink) idiom
- alcoholic
- alcoholism
- battered
- be as high as a kite idiom
- beer goggles
- binge drinking
- blasted
- bombed
- inebriated
- influence
- intoxicate
- intoxicated
- intoxicating
- sober (sb) up
- sobriety
- sot
- soused
- sozzled
- whacked
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