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

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

From Rambles in Womanland by O'Rell, Max

May I be allowed to introduce a fresh evidence to the public notice, in addition to the thousand-and-one whose testimony is already recorded.

From Letters on the Cholera Morbus. Containing ample evidence that this disease, under whatever name known, cannot be transmitted from the persons of those labouring under it to other individuals, by contact—through the medium of inanimate substances—or through the medium of the atmosphere; and that all restrictions, by cordons and quarantine regulations, are, as far as regards this disease, not merely useless, but highly injurious to the community. by Gillkrest, J. (James)

This was one of the thousand-and-one schemes which prisoners resort to in order to get "snout," and without the aid of an officer they can get none.

From Six Years in the Prisons of England by Henderson, Frank