one hundred and one

alternative 101 · alternative a hundred and one

1. idiomaticA great many; numerous.

   As a result, we talked – about a hundred and one things.

   1930, Sax Rohmer, The Day the World Ended, published 1969, page v. 46

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   The company has one hundred and one reasons for keeping Negroes out. The union, too, has one hundred and one reasons.

   1979, Charles Denby, Joel Denby, Indignant Heart: A Black Worker’s Journal, →ISBN, page 141

   [T]o offset the massive cost of learning 101 ways to embellish spatchcock, perhaps the readers may need 101 ways to cook two-minute noodles.

   1996, Samela Harris, “Introduction”, in On a Shoestring: Recipes from the House of the Raising Sons, Kent Town, Adelaide, S.A.: Wakefield Press, →ISBN, page vii

   Synonyms: one thousand and one