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on the fritz
Idioms and Phrases
see under on the blink .Example Sentences
The rich better hope they get what they paid for: After the bombs drop would be a bad time to find out that your oxygen filter was on the fritz or rodents had eaten all your apocalypse bucket slop before you got to it.
Buy a refill and hope the printer’s not on the fritz.
UCLA’s football-launching machine is on the fritz?
The evening truly goes on the fritz when Lilly, Torelli’s young Satanist, enters in a pinafore doing an unnervingly wonderful impersonation of an ordinary schoolgirl.
But like every machine I've ever owned, it goes on the fritz.
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