tsuris
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of tsuris
1970–75; < Yiddish tsures, tsores, plural of tsure, tsore < Hebrew ṣarā, plural ṣarōth troubles
Example Sentences
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While all of this is taking place in dreamlike fashion, there’s a lot of other mishigas and tsuris to get through.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2023
“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.”
From New York Times • Sep. 4, 2021
We learn more about the tsuris with Carrie Fisher, but we are not inside that marriage: We are on the outside, getting fragments of the anecdotes better delivered in Fisher’s monologue Wishful Drinking.
From Slate • May 31, 2018
This caused a lot of tsuris among the private-school families, who were against homelessness in principle.
From The Guardian • Jan. 10, 2017
Listen Daniel, I'm telling you from my heart, you want more tsuris than you already got?
From Seattle Times • Oct. 15, 2011
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