cut from whole cloth



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cut from whole cloth

Completely fictional or utterly false; totally made up. A reference to tailors who would falsely advertise garments being "cut 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 like it's cut from whole cloth to me.
See also: cloth, cut, whole

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
PaĈJoPAH-chyoEsperanto
Feliksfye-LEEKS (Russian), fee-LEEKS (Russian), FE-leeks (Polish)Russian, Slovene, Polish
TÍMea-Hungarian
JØRg-Danish, Norwegian
Naiara-Basque
Nikita (2)-Indian, Marathi, Hindi