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How to pronounce tsuris in English?

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Type of difficulty, trouble


the frustrating tsuris he subjected himself to.

Examples of tsuris

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For all this tsuris, he manages to be the hero of a sharply humorous novel portraying a bumbling man figuring out how to be a grown-up.
From the bloomberg.com
Such tsuris, as they say in France.
From the nytimes.com
It's just neat to think that these families are still chuggin'and still having their usual tsuris 30 years after I first started watching them.
From the tunedin.blogs.time.com
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  • (Yiddish) aggravating trouble; "the frustrating tsuris he subjected himself to"
  • This is a list of English words of Yiddish origin, many of which have entered the English language by way of American English. Spelling of some of these Yiddish language words may be variable (for example, schlep is also seen as shlep, schnoz as shnozz, and so on). ...
  • Problems or troubles
  • A word referring to all problems, trouble, grief, aggravation and heartache. Examples: daughter pregnant with child of an unemployed Catholic bartender; adult son loses job and moves back home.