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
He was brim-full of questions now, eager to learn the thousand-and-one wrinkles of woodcraft, and expressing his determination to accomplish wonderful things before many months had passed.
From The Boy Scouts in the Rockies or the Secret of the Hidden Silver Mine by Carter, Herbert
In no other way can we account for the thousand-and-one articles in which the appointments of Dr. Layard and Mr. D'Israeli have been referred to as "honor," "homage," &c., to literature.
From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 by Various
When the luncheon was unpacked and spread out, Mrs. Vernon smiled continuously at the happy chatter of the four girls, and the thousand-and-one plans they made for the camp that summer.
From Girl Scouts at Dandelion Camp by Roy, Lillian Elizabeth
