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This phrase 'To fall off the wagon' is usually said on a recovering alcoholic, which means that someone has returned to drinking alcohol after a passé of abstinence. Example in use: "Anna hadn't had a beverage in a decade, but when her husband of eleven years left her, she fell off the wagon again."