hang on to the water wagon
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You have this wrongWhen you stop drinking alcohol you are said to be ON the wagon.Thus if you fall OFF the wagon it is taken to mean that you have started to drink alcohol again having one stopped.The WAGON in the expression relates to the water wagon, which was a horse-drawn water car once used to spray dirt roads to keep down the dust. (So if you were on the wagon you must be drinking WATER).
This famous quote is a kind of pun, which depends upon two different interpretations of the word hang. To hang together is to act cooperatively, to be loyal to a group. Whereas, the ominous phrase hang separately means that the members of this group, if they fail to act cooperatively, will in due course be arrested, convicted, and executed by hanging.
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"Paddy Wagon" is a historic euphemism for a police van or wagon with room for multiple culprits in a secured rear section.
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wagon
It means to be sober. If you fall off the wagon you have begun drinking again/relapsed.
Hang in there
On the wagon means you are giving up alcohol. You are not going to drink anything alcoholic. If you fall off the wagon, you've slipped up and had a drink.
to hang out
It means to talk to him and hang out w/ him like you hang out with your budIt means to talk to him and hang out w/ him like you hang out with your bud:D