испытать неполадки(When Phobos-Grunt first went awry, the director of the Russian space agency, Vladimir Popovkin, said that a flawed navigational computer might be to blame.nytimes.com)
пойти не по намеченному плану(Before the sale, the new owners sent me a letter saying they intended to renovate the heritage house and raise their two young daughters there. But they sold it after one year when their renovation plan went awry. (vancouversun.com)ART Vancouver)
и на старуху бывает проруха(приблиз.: парафраз из романа "О мышах и людях" (Of Mice and Men) Джона Стейнбека на строку "The best-laid schemes of mice and men • Go often askew" из стихотворения "К полевой мыши.../К мыши, разорённой моим плугом" (To a Mouse) Роберта БёрнсаБаян)
