2007-02-26 10:00:44 · 5 answers · asked by IzzyB 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Ok maybe I wasn't clear enough. I know what it means, but where did the saying originate from. Thanks
2007-02-26 10:11:42 · update #1
It comes from falling off the "water wagon" ...or so it seems, and could theoretically be applied to anything you are trying to give up.
2007-02-26 10:09:17 · answer #1 · answered by Bob 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it may go back to those days in the USA were some women went round trying to get rid of alcohol. Falling off the wagon ment not staying with the pledge to give up drinking.
--That Cheeky Lad
2007-02-26 17:30:12 · answer #2 · answered by Charles-CeeJay_UK_ USA/CheekyLad 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My great, great grandfather took a wagon train trip from Iowa to Montana territory. He had stopped drinking 1 month before the trip.
Somewhere along the trail, he started drinking again, fell off the wagon, never to be seen again.
Hence the familiar slogan began.
"WE don't know where he is" my family kept telling folks, he got drunk and fell off the wagon.
2007-02-26 10:11:33 · answer #3 · answered by mantle two 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Drinking, alcohol and drink it!!!
When you go Back to Drinking!!!
Wahoo
2007-02-26 10:06:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
when you give up alcohol then start again!
2007-02-26 10:06:49 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋