Her oven is on the fritz?

[Torsten]

So I guess the expression 'her oven is on the fritz' means she is pregnant. If so, where does it stem from?

Thanks,
Torsten
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[prezbucky]

TD

I've always thought that "on the fritz" meant that the thing had broken down, was performing poorly, etc.

"My car is on the fritz" = "My car isn't performing right"
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[prezbucky]

"The woman's oven is on the fritz" = "The woman has problems with her genitalia/genital area"

OR

"Her oven isn't working properly" (the kind of oven that bakes things)
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[KLPNO]

[Yankee]

[lost_soul]

Hi to everyone !
BTW, googling "her oven is on the friz" produced a scanty number of 6 hits, all of them being about the kitchen appliance, not about genitalias.

See it for yourself: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Her+oven+is+on+the+fritz%22
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Alex

How much upchuck would a woodchuck upchuck if a woodchuck could upchuck ?

(a guy from Russia)

[Torsten]

Hi everyone,

Thanks a lot for all your contributions -- I came across the phrase in a movie called "The perfect stranger" and in the given context it meant "She is having problems getting pregnant".
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[Yankee]

Ah HA! Then 'oven' was in fact a reference to the idiom 'have a bun in the oven'.
Still, I wouldn't call that sentence a "commonly used" one. It would be more a case of word play, in my opinion.

Isn't it amazing what a huge role context can play in understanding language?
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Amy
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ESL teacher, translator, and a native speaker of American English

[prezbucky]

Amy, I've never heard anyone say "Her oven is on the fritz" -- I figured if someone were to say that, the meaning would be something like "there's something wrong with her oven"

if the reference was to her genitalia ("oven" is rare but not entirely unheard of), it would mean her "stuff" wasn't working properly.

And yeah, that's Molly. She's a sparkplug.
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[Yankee]