whole cloth
adverb
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adv
- In full extent, wholesale, entirely, without changes or additions.
“Some are strangely detailed, like the hugely antlered white deer-creature-cum-forest-god seemingly stolen whole cloth from Princess Mononoke.”
noun
- A newly made textile which has not yet been cut.
- The fictitious material from which complete fabrications, lies with no basis in truth, are made.
“Mr. Doe's account of the accident was made from whole cloth.”
“All those tales that came clicking over the wireless of the capture of huge stores of grain and oil were fables out of whole cloth.”
- Something made completely new, with no history, and not based on anything else.
“The plans for the widget were drawn from whole cloth.”
“And, mind you, emotions are among the toughest things in the world to manufacture out of whole cloth; it is easier to manufacture seven facts than one emotion.”