tsuris

Definitions

Problems or troubles.

English, Jewish, US, colloquial, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“You think⟳ you got troubles? You should go down there and talk⟳ to some of those schnorrers. Still, what chutzbah^([sic]). It's like⟳ the Jewish moral sense⟳, emerging from all that tsuris.”

““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.”

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