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
Only this kind of love will survive the thousand-and-one little drawbacks of matrimony.
From Rambles in Womanland by O'Rell, Max
Rumors of her perfections of face and form and character had come across the seas, in those thousand-and-one letters, for which a fostering government makes postal unions.
From Belford's Magazine, Volume II, No. 8, January, 1889 by Various
The coach for which Mr. Long had thought it advisable not to wait, had met in its time with a thousand-and-one strange casualties, and the guard was a very Scheherazade at relating them.
From Lost Sir Massingberd, v. 2/2 A Romance of Real Life by Payn, James
