tsuris
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Yiddish צרות (tsores), plural of צרה (tsore, “trouble, problem”), from Hebrew צָרָה (tsará, “trouble, tragedy, calamity”).
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tsuris (uncountable)
- (US, colloquial) Problems or troubles.
- 1968, Ronald Sukenick, Up, Dial Press, page 84:
- You think you got troubles? You should go down there and talk to some of those schnorrers. Still, what chutzbah. It's like the Jewish moral sense, emerging from all that tsuris.
- 1991, John Updike, Rabbit at Rest:
- “Sounds to me, my friend, like you got some tsuris. Not full grown yet, not gehoketh tsuris, but tsuris.”
- 1997, Hilary Henkin and David Mamet, Wag the Dog, New Line Cinema
- Stanley Moss: I don't need this gig, I don't need the money, I don't need the tsuris ... I don't need it.
Quotations edit
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:tsuris.
Translations edit
problems or troubles
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