cut out of whole cloth
cut out of whole cloth
Entirely fictional or utterly false; completely fabricated and not based on reality at all. A reference to tailors who would falsely advertise garments being made "out of whole cloth," when, in reality, they were pieced together from different cuts. To be honest, I don't believe a word he says—it sounds cut out of whole cloth to me.
See also: cloth, cut, of, out, whole
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- cut from whole cloth
- made from whole cloth
- made out of whole cloth
- out of whole cloth
- make (something) up out of whole cloth
- make something of whole cloth
- make up out of whole cloth
- whole cloth
- sherlock
- NSS