on the blink
When amachineis on theblink, it is notworkingcorrectly.
（机器）失灵，出毛病broken
- brokenThe microwave's broken.
- deadThe phone's dead; there must be a problem with the line.
- defunctThe TV's defunct!
- bustUKYou won't be able to watch the game, the TV's bust.
- bustedUSOh no, my laptop's busted.
- out of orderThe coffee machine was out of order.
Machines - not functioning
- act
- break
- brokenness
- brownout
- burn out
- conk
- conk out
- cut
- cutsomethingout
- DDoS
- dead
- defective
- dysfunction
- fritz
- idle
- incapacitate
- shudder to a haltidiom
- shutdown
- stall
- temperamentally
- He—his control's on the blink!
- The whole observatory went on the blink.
- Well, I don't know what you call it, but there's a machine here that showed some pictures until it went on the blink.
on the blink| American Dictionary
on the blink
notworkingcorrectly:
TheDVDplayeris on the blink again.
Examplesofon the blink
on the blink
It came down to the difference between a prison cell and a good life in which one occasionally gets angry about the refrigerator that keeps goingontheblink.
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Every day somewhere on the underground system the signalling goesontheblinkand millions of gallons of water seep into the tunnels.
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What if someone is not identified with the card that he presents, or the computer goesontheblink?
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Transportation and roads are important, and we need a power supply which does not fluctuate, causing computers to goontheblinkonce or twice a day.
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Alarms are sounded, police are called and suddenly the electrics goontheblink.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Among these are technological failures, such as a television that'sontheblink, a clothes dryer that doesn't work and a video machine that breaks down.
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- spoil-sb-rotten
- spoil sb's party
- spoil-sb-s-party
- spoil someone rotten
- spoil someone's party
- spoilsport
- spoilt
- spoil tip
- spoil-tip
- spoke
- spoken
- spoken dialect
- spoken dialogue
- spoken discourse
- spoken for
- spoken-for
- spoken language
- spoken narrative
- spoken phrase
- spoken sentence
- spoken word
- spokesman
- spokesperson
- spokeswoman
- spondaic