What does tsuris mean?
Tsuris means (US, colloquial, Jewish English) Problems or troubles..
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/tsʊɹɪs/ · noun
(US, colloquial, Jewish English) Problems or troubles..
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.
You think you got troubles? You should go down there and talk to some of those schnorrers. Still, what chutzbah^([sic]). It's like the Jewish moral sense, emerging from all that tsuris.
“Sounds to me, my friend, like you got some tsuris. Not full grown yet, not gehoketh tsuris, but tsuris.”
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Tsuris means (US, colloquial, Jewish English) Problems or troubles..
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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.
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