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

Dazed and tired by the excitement of arrival and the thousand-and-one greetings of welcoming friends, I could think of but one thing, my d�but.

From Geraldine Farrar The Story of an American Singer by Farrar, Geraldine

Only this kind of love will survive the thousand-and-one little drawbacks of matrimony.

From Rambles in Womanland by O'Rell, Max