Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Trouble; aggravation.
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- noun US, colloquial
Problems ortroubles .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (Yiddish) aggravating trouble
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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That class of tsuris is one we have a competence in.
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That class of tsuris is one we have a competence in.
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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.
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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.
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As our protagonist solemnly tells the rabbi, "I've had quite a bit of 'tsuris' lately."
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As our protagonist solemnly tells the rabbi, "I've had quite a bit of 'tsuris' lately."
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You get a star, Mom gets a cross, and I get all the tsuris when you two are fighting about religion.
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He apparently had a "lot of tsuris with Lucy and Desi" he tells office manager Joan.
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It was almost as if Obama was walking away from the presidency itself, and all the tsuris it has brought him.
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Seventy percent of the people on line get turned away and it is just a lot of tsuris.
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