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
But a thousand-and-one unforeseen things may arise to completely upset the prediction, or deduction, for it is never actually true until it occurs.
From Genuine Mediumship or The Invisible Powers by Atkinson, William Walker
A thousand-and-one combinations of light are tested until the right one is hit upon to suggest mystery, joy, sorrow, dawn, evening, superstition, cruelty, as the case may be.
From England by Fox, Frank, Sir
A new element arose, and as we walked towards our rambling old inn, with its thousand-and-one passages, we thought them painfully evident.
From Glories of Spain by Wood, Charles W. (William)
