Sentence examples similar to break down on something from inspiring English sources

Yet his machine still broke down on something as elementary as whether his three nominees paid their taxes or not.

"If something breaks down on a Tuesday at four o'clock, that warehouse knows at five past four, and the part is on a DHL plane at seven or eight that evening," trumpets Kuijpers.

Clearly, it breaks down on two fronts.

(P19, Limited consumer) "What I've heard it did say something about the plastic starting to break down and something about it being able to cause cancer and as soon as anyone says something about cancer you'd think".

If you break down on the road, they advise you to set fire to something".

The signals broke down or something.

Once I got to campus, though, something started to break down.

"It breaks down on economic lines".

"Things keep breaking down on me.

The negotiations broke down on 2 December.

It only broke down on me once.