million and one
English
English phrasebook
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Phrase
- Alternative form of thousand and one.
- 1966, “A Million and One”, Yvonne Devaney (lyrics), performed by Billy Walker:
- How many teardrops / Have I cried over you / A million and one / A million and two
- 1987, Linder Pender, “The Partners: Profiting Through Teamwork”, in Cincinnati Magazine, volume 20, number 12, page 39:
- A million and one reasons why going into business with a friend is doomed to failure.
- 2012, Lee Erwin, edited by Micheal Hix, An American Organist in Paris: The Letters of Lee Orville Erwin, 1930-1931, Scarecrow Press, →ISBN, page 82:
- There is absolutely no end to the things that one can hear and see in Paris—and I have a million and one things that I want to see before I have to leave.
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