whole cloth | Idiomator

Meaning: (textiles)A newly madetextilewhich has not yet been cut.Synonym:broadcloth; (figurative,uncountable,used attributively or preceded by various prepositions)The fictitious material from which completefabrications, lies with no basis in truth, are made.Mr. Doe's account of the accident was made fromwhole cloth.1917,Sydney Brooks, “What Great Britain is Doing”, inNational Geographic:All those tales that came clicking over thewirelessof the capture of huge stores of grain and oil were fables out ofwhole cloth.; (figurative,uncountable)Something made completely new, with no history, and not based on anything else.The plans for the widget were drawn fromwhole cloth.1883,Mark Twain[pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter 27, inLife on the Mississippi, Boston, Mass.:James R[ipley] Osgood and Company,→OCLC:And, mind you, emotions are among the toughest things in the world to manufacture out ofwhole cloth; it is easier to manufacture seven facts than one emotion.1852,Daniel De Leon, transl., chapter 1, inThe Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, translation of original byKarl Marx:Man makes his own history, but he does not make it out of thewhole cloth; he does not make it out of conditions chosen by himself, but out of such as he finds close at hand.1988,Supreme Court of Canada,R. v. Morgentaler:The decisions made by judges, however, and the interpretations that they advance or accept must be plausiblyinferablefrom something in the Charter. It is not for the courts to manufacture a constitutional right out ofwhole cloth.2022, Mark Bergen,Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube’s Chaotic Rise to World Domination‎[1], Penguin,→ISBN:Susan Wojcicki became YouTube's leader during the obvious phase. She didn't need to invent YouTube's business plan fromwhole cloth.

Examples:

EN: What a fabulous story concocted out of whole cloth, and presented here in the hope of blocking justice and thus saving the life of a murderer.
ES: Que fabulosa historia inventada todo el tiempo, y presentadola aquí con esperanza de bloquear la justicia y así salvar la vida de un asesino.
EN: You copied it of whole cloth!
ES: Lo copiaste desde cero.
EN: Whether whole cloth or from people you've met, you've invented him.
ES: adelante. ¿Que es lo que te hace tan especial?
EN: You cut him out of whole cloth! Now, i don't know what your graft is, goldsmith... i don't know how you get paid off, but i do know that it's time you let these people know what's in that cave.
ES: Lo que no sé es lo que gana usted con ello, no sé cómo le pagan, pero lo que sí sé es que ya es hora de que se sepa lo que hay en la cueva.
EN: Every life is made of whole cloth.
ES: La vida es una, forma un bloque.
EN: It was made up out of whole cloth.
ES: Inventada de la nada.
EN: There are claims from some corners that Mr. Irving has concocted this book from whole cloth.
ES: Algunas personas dicen que el Sr. Irving ha inventado todo el libro.
EN: Liz isn't inventing what she saw out of whole cloth.
ES: Liz no está inventando lo que vio sin fundamentos.
EN: Made this story out of whole cloth, because he wants a situation.
ES: Inventó este cuento de la nada porque quiere un conflicto.
EN: She made an attack up out of whole cloth.
ES: Ella creó un ataque de la nada.
EN: The whole cloth and warm water thing works well in story books, but I might have to do this my way.
ES: Todo lo de los paños y el agua caliente funciona bien en los libros de historia, pero voy a tener que hacer esto a mi manera.
EN: It's another thing to manufacture them from whole cloth.
ES: Otra cosa es inventártelos de la nada.
EN: Those accusations are unrelated and invented from whole cloth.
ES: Esas acusaciones no están relacionadas e inventó de la nada.
EN: I make money out of thin air, smoke, whole cloth.
ES: Gano dinero del aire, del humo, de todo el paño.
EN: That's the subject of my essay, but Professor Denton rejected it, whole cloth.
ES: Ese es el tema de mi ensayo, pero el profesor Denton la rechazó.

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