Meaning of tsuris | Babel Free

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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