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  • Beck had enough chutzpah -- brazen nerve -- to stage such a self-aggrandizing event, and believes the mainstream media is to blame for the negative publicity it garnered by machen a tsimmis -- making molehills into mountains.

    Harvey Gotliffe, Ph.D.: Glenn Back, Gay Avech 2010

  • Beck had enough chutzpah -- brazen nerve -- to stage such a self-aggrandizing event, and believes the mainstream media is to blame for the negative publicity it garnered by machen a tsimmis -- making molehills into mountains.

    Harvey Gotliffe, Ph.D.: Glenn Back, Gay Avech 2010

  • Beck had enough chutzpah -- brazen nerve -- to stage such a self-aggrandizing event, and believes the mainstream media is to blame for the negative publicity it garnered by machen a tsimmis -- making molehills into mountains.

    Harvey Gotliffe, Ph.D.: Glenn Back, Gay Avech 2010

  • This past Saturday I (with incredible assistance) made salad with diverse fixings (pine nuts, jicama, cranberries, carrots, green onions, avocado), 13 pounds of roasted lamb, divine gravy, enormous quantities of sweet potato and pineapple tsimmis, and sauteed asparagus with shitake mushrooms.

    Ten Things Tuesday: Bread of Affliction « The Life and Times of Organic Mama 2009

  • "He was strictly a melting -- pot man," Alicja said while attacking a large helping of tsimmis.

    The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967

  • Our sub-group got along fine, but there was a tsimmis.

    Critical Mass 2009

  • Now that the bonuses have become a big tsimmis, the politicians are either running for cover or competing with each other to come up with ways to torture these folks, ranging from retroactive confiscatory taxes to threats to publish their names and addresses so their families can live in fear.

    Fool.com: The Motley Fool 2009

  • It's like Watergate all over again, if Nixon had been pressured to resign in January of 1969. another tsimmis over the seating of a maybe-Senator, Al Franken in this case.

    alicublog 2009

  • AND roasted lamb, sweet potato, squash and prune tsimmis (basically a soft baked pudding), roasted asparagus, homemade potato knishes (I might have forgotten something).

    Once Upon A Feast - Every Kitchen Tells Its Stories 2008

  • Side dishes ... green & yellow beans with cherry tomatoes quickly sauteed with a little garlic and oil; squash and apples (to be the tsimmis).

    Once Upon A Feast - Every Kitchen Tells Its Stories 2008

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  • Used in Robert B. Parker's 'Hundred-Dollar Baby'. Yiddish word for a simple side dish, but also used to refer to the equivalent of a tizzy or fuss. "Don't make a big tsimmis out of it" i.e., try to make a complicated thing out of a simple situation.

    Also spelled tzimiss, tsimis, tzimis, tsimiss.

    Click here for a recipe.

    August 25, 2007

  • Independently, after finding NO definition, i related tsimmis to TIZZY, merely from the two worlds having nearly identical contexts in their usage. Plus they sound a bit similar to one another. Check out some of the recipes ... I'll definitely be adding sunflower seeds to mine : ) P.S. I use brackets in place of parentheses bcuz I often type ": )".

    April 22, 2017

  • I now see that brackets surrounding words will NOT appear in Comment.

    April 22, 2017

  • Read the faint text under the Comments box for an eclaircissement of Wordnik's treatment of brackets.

    April 24, 2017