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
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
And ever mingled with these rumors, came praises of those thousand-and-one accomplishments, which society is equally apt to admire as to envy, even while it does not appreciate.
From Belford's Magazine, Volume II, No. 8, January, 1889 by Various
This was one of the thousand-and-one schemes which prisoners resort to in order to get "snout," and without the aid of an officer they can get none.
From Six Years in the Prisons of England by Henderson, Frank
