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

Whether they would actually keep the nerve-ridden oblivious of bombs for the thousand-and-one nights that might have seen raids and didn't is a matter that need not concern us.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 5, 1916 by Seaman, Owen, Sir

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

Then, little by little, kiosks, tall sad-looking cypresses, sycamores, and the other thousand-and-one wonders of that city of beautiful and revolting contradictions, took shape and form.

From The Mark of the Beast by Watson, Sidney