tsuris

Or tsour·is,

[tsoor-is, tsur-]

noun

Slang.

1. trouble; woe.

Word History and Origins

Origin of tsuris¹

1970–75; < Yiddish tsures, tsores, plural of tsure, tsore < Hebrew ṣarā, plural ṣarōth troubles

Example Sentences

While all of this is taking place in dreamlike fashion, there’s a lot of other mishigas and tsuris to get through.

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“He’s got trouble with his kids, he’s got tsuris with his wife,” she went on, using the Yiddish word for “trouble,” “his mother’s a pain, we all could relate.”

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He did, after all, close his own label with very little tsuris after he landed the bigger jobs, swapping independence for the corporate superstructure of power, budgets and reach.

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Now there’s a recipe for tsuris, the surest.

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“No tsuris, no plotzing for us,” began the death notice, which ran in The Post earlier this week.

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