tsuris
noun
trouble; woe.
tsouris,
-
a variation of
tsuris.
Example Sentences
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Oy, the tsouris it caused at his yeshiva!
From New York Times ● Jun. 26, 2023
It seems as if a lot of us are perfectly willing to risk the tsouris of acquiring instant, mind-boggling wealth.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 13, 2016
By one account, linguists rejected the drug name Soarus because it sounded like tsouris, Yiddish for “trouble.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 15, 2015
After all the tsimmes, tsouris and geshrei, Air America is doing, as Franken might say with a gulp, okay.
From Time Magazine Archive
