tsuris

---

Pronunciation

• IPA: /tsʊɹɪs/, /tsuːɹɪs/

Noun

tsuris (uncountable)

1. (US, colloquial) Problems or troubles.
   • 1968, Ronald Sukenick, Up, page 84, Dial Press

     You think you got troubles? You should go down there and talk to some of those schnorrers. Still, what chutzbah. It's like the Jewish moral sense, emerging from all that 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.

Translations

• French: histoires, emmerdes, embrouilles, pagaille, bordel, problèmes, sale histoire, salades, bourbier, micmac, bousbir, binz, panade
• German: Zores
• Russian: проблема
• Spanish: lío, embrollo

---

This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.002