made out of whole cloth



made out of 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 made out of whole cloth to me.
See also: cloth, made, of, out, whole

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Archbold['a:tʃbəuld]
Dimas-Spanish, Portuguese
Delphina-Late Roman
TalithaTAL-i-thə (English)Biblical
Jeppe-Danish
VÜQar-Azerbaijani