whole cloth

Make-believe; invention. Usually appears in the phrase "out of whole cloth." I broke curfew staying out too late with my boyfriend, but luckily I was able to make an excuse out of whole cloth about being at the library. When my sister refused to go to sleep without a bedtime story, I pulled a tale about princesses together out of whole cloth.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Donar	-	Germanic Mythology
Hotaru	ho-tah-ṙoo	Japanese
Granger	['greindʒə]
NoËL	no-EL	French
'Avigayil	-	Biblical Hebrew
Diot	-	Medieval English