tsuris
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Yiddish צרות (tsores), plural of צרה (tsore, “trouble, problem”), from Hebrew צָרָה (tsará, “trouble, tragedy, calamity”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
tsuris (uncountable)
- (US, colloquial) Problems or troubles.
- 1968, Ronald Sukenick, Up, page 84, Dial Press
- 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.
- 1968, Ronald Sukenick, Up, page 84, Dial Press
QuotationsEdit
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:tsuris.
TranslationsEdit
problems or troubles
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