barfly vs on the wagon

barfly

noun
  • a person who spends much time in a bar or similar drinking establishment 

  • a promiscuous person, especially a woman, who frequents bars hoping to find sexual partners 

on the wagon

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

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

  • Maintaining a program of self-improvement or abstinence from some other undesirable habit. 

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