cut out of whole cloth
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To know Glover is to know there are layers of truth within a story that is mostly cut out of whole cloth.
From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2022
But last week appeared a pattern of the U.S.S.R. that was no piecemeal snippet but cut out of whole cloth.
From Time Magazine Archive
This and a number of these remarks are only suffering them to wear a coat which they themselves have cut out of whole cloth, and which seems to fit them so exactly.
From A Review and Exposition, of the Falsehoods and Misrepresentations, of a Pamphlet Addressed to the Republicans of the County of Saratoga, Signed, "A Citizen" by Elector, An
That is no mistake; 'tis a lie cut out of whole cloth.
From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Lynde, Francis
For some instinct told her that Fendrick’s taunt was not a lie cut out of whole cloth.
From Crooked Trails and Straight by Hutchison, D. C.
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