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.

From Los Angeles Times

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.

From Salon

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

From Slate

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

From Los Angeles Times

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.

From Los Angeles Times