get out of order
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Should the control system itself get out of order, all trains in the block would be automatically stopped.
From Time Magazine Archive
Carry our discoveries to the utmost limit, man is still a machine that will get out of order, will be injured and will ultimately wear out.
From Time Magazine Archive
Catching diseases.—Our body may get out of order like a machine.
From Applied Physiology Including the Effects of Alcohol and Narcotics by Frank Overton
The mechanical valve-gear does not often get out of order, but sometimes the unexpected happens.
From Steam Turbines A Book of Instruction for the Adjustment and Operation of the Principal Types of this Class of Prime Movers by Hubert E. (Hubert Edwin) Collins
One of the strongest arguments against intricacy in telephone apparatus is its greater initial cost, its greater cost of maintenance, and its liability to get out of order.
From Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 2 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. by Samuel McMeen
