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
Among the first thousand-and-one mysteries of Kartabo I give a place to the source of nourishment of the sub-bungalow ant-lions.
From Edge of the Jungle by Beebe, William
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.
A new element arose, and as we walked towards our rambling old inn, with its thousand-and-one passages, we thought them painfully evident.
From Glories of Spain by Wood, Charles W. (William)
