early 15c., "piece of cloth of full size," as opposed to a piece cut out for a garment; figurative sense first attested 1570s.
Sykes approached the study believing that the Yeti legend may not be made up out of whole cloth.
"Milke may well be guilty, even if Saldate made up her confession out of whole cloth," Kozinski wrote.
Let them point to the public doubts they themselves manufactured "out of whole cloth," as my father used to say.
One of them even warned that he suspected Curveball was a fabricator who had created his story out of whole cloth.
That Eton captain is cut out of whole cloth; no shoddy there, by Jove!
I was looking at it when there appeared a picture which covered the whole cloth.
But doubtless this incident was manufactured out of the whole cloth.
Fortunately, we have not to begin our experiments out of whole cloth.
Another romance out of the whole cloth by the Bourbon sthete!
He just made that story out of whole cloth, 'cause he wants to get a situation.
