fritz

• You'll have to pay attention, though, especially at the higher levels, where the crude computer can go on the fritz, and you've got to scramble to operate manually. —  Omni: December 1994
• But the drive across the bridge had been all wrong and he didn't know where his condo building had gone and his cell phone was on the fritz, and here he was lost in this dark forlorn neighborhood of empty lots and abandoned warehouses with a wintry wind blowing—hey, hadn't it been sticky and humid a few minute ago?—on what had started out as a summer day. —  FSF,October2007
• Our communications gear was on the fritz, so we never got the cease-fire order. —  Phule 01 - Phules Company
• Unless they were up to something—or their electrical system was on the fritz, Anna thought more prosaically. —  Barr, Nevada - [Anna Pigeon 02] A Superior Death v1.0 HTML
• F: So when your hair dryer goes on the fritz, you'll be able to fix it. —  F ;SF - vol 105 issue 03 - September 2003

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