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
A thousand-and-one sights greeted the eyes of the three scouts.
From The Boy Scouts on Belgian Battlefields by Goldfrap, John Henry
In no other way can we account for the thousand-and-one articles in which the appointments of Dr. Layard and Mr. D'Israeli have been referred to as "honor," "homage," &c., to literature.
From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 by Various
But during the period of the American war the gold tide ebbed too swiftly, leaving high and dry not only diggers, but the thousand-and-one classes who were indirectly dependent upon the gold supply.
From Town Life in Australia by Twopeny, Richard Ernest Nowell
