| 单词 | whole cloth |
| 释义 | whole cloth n. Idiom: Pure fabrication or fiction: "His account of being drugged, kidnapped and tortured was made up of whole cloth" (George Carver). out of whole cloth 1. By means of the imagination or as a fabrication: "Some of her stories she created out of whole cloth; for others she began with an incident Idella had described and then reimagined it into a full story" (Kate Walbert). 2. Out of nothing; from the very start: "The idea of creating out of whole cloth an intelligence network in a country like that is daunting" (Jack Reed). [From the fabrication of garments out of newly manufactured, full-sized pieces of cloth.] |
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