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
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
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)
Rumors of her perfections of face and form and character had come across the seas, in those thousand-and-one letters, for which a fostering government makes postal unions.
From Belford's Magazine, Volume II, No. 8, January, 1889 by Various
