tzimmes
- noun
- /ˈzɪməs/
- Informal
- She told her children not to make a tzimmes over spilled milk.
Examples
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Whenever something goes wrong, he creates a huge tzimmes instead of solving the problem quietly.
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I can't believe the tzimmes they made about the missing documents.
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There is no need to make a tzimmes about a small mistake on the report.
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There's no need to make such a tzimmes over a small mistake.
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There is no need to make a tzimmes about a small mistake on the report.
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Whenever something goes wrong, he creates a huge tzimmes instead of solving the problem quietly.
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She told her children not to make a tzimmes over spilled milk.
Synonyms
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4.2
A noisy argument about something unimportant
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7.0
A noisy fuss about something not important
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7.9
Too much fuss about a small, unimportant thing
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9.9
A loud, unnecessary fuss about something unimportant
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9.9
A small noisy fuss about something unimportant
A lot of fuss about something small
How Fussy
Surface Forms
Etymology
Tzimmes also means an unnecessary fuss, and this sense comes from the same Yiddish word tsimes, with the idea of a noisy 'mix' or 'mess'; one popular way to remember it is to think of people making a big, mixed-up worry over something small. So when someone says there is a tzimmes, they mean there is needless commotion.