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Retroterm of the day: On the wagon.

April 16, 2009 //  by David Keyes

Beginning in the late nineteenth century men with drinking problems showed their resolve to quit by vowing that they’d rather drink water from the wagon that wetted down dusty roads than liquor. They were “on the water wagon.” Those who resumed drinking fell “off the wagon.”

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