Last Updated：2025/11/20

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

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on the wagon

Source Word

on the wagon

Prepositional phrase

idiomatic broadly

Japanese Meaning

酒を断っている、すなわち断酒中である状態を表す（以前に飲酒習慣があった場合に使われる）

After his doctor's warning, he's been on the wagon and refuses even a sip at parties.

医師の警告を受けて以来、彼はお酒を断っていて、パーティーでも一口たりとも飲もうとしない。

Sense（1）

Sense（2）

(by extension) Maintaining a program of self-improvement or abstinence from some other undesirable habit.

He’s been on the smoking cessation wagon for two weeks now.

Sense（3）

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