out of whole cloth

What still doesn't make sense, though, is why someone would create such a damaging story out of whole cloth?

"Sometimes, she is constructed out of whole cloth by the court."

It would be best not to have to manufacture anything out of whole cloth.

At random I made up three or four names out of whole cloth.

"The other guys were so desperate, they just made that up out of whole cloth," he said.

Surely all those tales had not been made up out of whole cloth.

These sites all look completely real, yet they have been created out of whole cloth entirely for this game.

I make them out of whole cloth, just like a tailor makes a suit.

You just made that up out of whole cloth.

But the Times didn't just fabricate this out of whole cloth.

It was far too detailed to have been created out of whole cloth as a diversion.

If there is such a right, it will have to be manufactured by the justices out of whole cloth.

I have been blessed, to be able to create characters and worlds out of whole cloth.

He did so by making Apple a company that, time and again over the past decade, created industries out of whole cloth.

All we have left is a fiction created out of whole cloth and "leaked" by the Bush campaign.

These men who make up stories out of whole cloth usually leave a few loose threads somewhere.

Madeone for him out of whole cloth, if they had to, just to push his career along.

Can we simply stitch those up out of whole cloth, do you think?"

But the silence in which I reinvent myself (out of whole cloth, as it were) is not easy.

While inventive, these men did not create their sensibility out of whole cloth.

Lawyers are often accused of making things out of whole cloth.

Milo was created out of whole cloth, as are all the characters in my novels.

They invented the entire crisis out of whole cloth.

You were not inventing something out of whole cloth.

The city's contention, he said, "is made out of whole cloth.