on the fritz

1. see under on the blink.

Example Sentences

Don’t miss, for instance, a food replicator on the fritz, where holographic tea will consistently fail to properly materialize.

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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.

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Buy a refill and hope the printer’s not on the fritz.

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UCLA’s football-launching machine is on the fritz?

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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.

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