tsuris

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Wizard of Oz. Friedman exults in the unresolved joining of private tsuris (pain) and public naches (joy) in the faces of his subjects.

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  • Maybe Elliott's been too humble to kibitz about his tsuris in order to gain sympathy votes, so thanks to Shanker for doing it for him. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • With all this tsuris about the web removing our ability to read and comprehend long texts, —  Caveat Lector
  • Wizard of Oz. Friedman exults in the unresolved joining of private tsuris (pain) and public naches (joy) in the faces of his subjects. —  Playback:stl Syndication
  • Such a merger would no doubt increase the tsuris for S.F. federation CEO Daniel Sokatch. —  J. Weekly
  • I thought it best for my first JewSchool post to just jump right on in there with my latest political tsuris, which is aggrieving but still more fun than making my who-do-I-have-to-apologize-to-this-year list. —  Jewschool
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  1. Yiddish tsores, pl. of tsure, from Hebrew ṣārâ, from ṣārar, to become narrow; see ṣrr in Semitic roots.
 

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