on the blink

/ɒnðə blˈɪŋk/

/ɑːnðə blˈɪŋk/

[phrase]

on the blink

[PHRASE]

used to refer to machinary that is not functioning properly or at all

Examples

1. and he has this theory that we blink in the same reason that dogs shake the kind of transition from one consciousness moment to the next and that cuts happen on the blink that cuts happen at a rhythm that matches the way in which we blink to change subjects and to gear shift as it were