thousand-and-one
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These are among the thousand-and-one takes being dispensed by pundits about what GameStop means.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2021
In the past three months, Metropolitan Opera audiences have seen more exploding galleons, clashing armies and airborne tenors than they did in the thousand-and-one nights at the old house.
From Time Magazine Archive
The mate released him, and stood eyeing him with a puzzled expression as a thousand-and-one little eccentricities on the part of the skipper suddenly occurred to him.
From The Skipper's Wooing, and The Brown Man's Servant by Jacobs, W. W. (William Wymark)
The long gossiping visits of her thousand-and-one acquaintances subsided into frigid morning calls, at which the grim phantom of the husband frowned from a corner and suppressed all idle chatter.
From Olive A Novel by Bowers, G.
And ever mingled with these rumors, came praises of those thousand-and-one accomplishments, which society is equally apt to admire as to envy, even while it does not appreciate.
From Belford's Magazine, Volume II, No. 8, January, 1889 by Various
