| 词汇 | invent out of whole cloth |
| 释义 | (redirected from invent out of whole cloth)make (something) up out of whole clothTo fabricate something entirely fictional or utterly false and not based on reality at all. A reference to tailors who would falsely advertise garments being made "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 he made it up out of whole cloth to me. make something up out of whole clothFig. to fabricate a story or a lie. That's a lie. You just made that up out of whole cloth. That's a lie. You just made up that story out of whole cloth. |
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