tsuris

alternative tsores · alternative tsoris · alternative tsorris · alternative tsouris · alternative tszoris · alternative tsures · alternative tzuris

1. EnglishJewishUScolloquialuncountableProblems or troubles.

   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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   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.

   1968, Ronald Sukenick, Up, Dial Press, page 84

   “Sounds to me, my friend, like you got some tsuris. Not full grown yet, not gehoketh tsuris, but tsuris.”

   1991, John Updike, Rabbit at Rest