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cut out of whole cloth



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Idioms and Phrases

see out of whole cloth .
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To know Glover is to know there are layers of truth within a story that is mostly cut out of whole cloth.

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George’s Anselm and Monsef’s Amir are characters more or less cut out of whole cloth, but Groener’s Kurt and Sloyan’s Srilanka flirt with parody.

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The devils of popular mediaeval religion were not cut out of whole cloth: they were simply the Neoplatonic demons of the air, together with the gods of Olympus and the more ancient chthonic deities, blackened by sectarian zeal, and degraded by a coarse and timid imagination.

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But last week appeared a pattern of the U.S.S.R. that was no piecemeal snippet but cut out of whole cloth.

For some instinct told her that Fendrick’s taunt was not a lie cut out of whole cloth.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

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