on the fritz

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.

Dave Madore owns the arcade and jukeboxes inside the restaurant, where he was supposed to be Wednesday night to fix a jukebox that was on the fritz.