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
The long gossiping visits of her thousand-and-one acquaintances subsided into frigid morning calls, at which the grim phantom of the husband frowned from a corner and suppressed all idle chatter.
From Olive A Novel by Bowers, G.
Nor will I worry you with the thousand-and-one attempts I have made to explain to myself what I still confess to be inexplicable.
From The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. I (of II) by Lever, Charles James
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
