whole cloth
Short definition from Wiktionary
Noun
- A newly made textile which has not yet been cut.
- The fictitious material from which complete fabrications, lies with no basis in truth, are made.
- Something made completely new, with no history, and not based on anything else.
Adverb
- in full extent, wholesale, entirely, without changes or additions
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