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cut out of whole cloth
Idioms and Phrases
see out of whole cloth .Example Sentences
To know Glover is to know there are layers of truth within a story that is mostly cut out of whole cloth.
George鈥檚 Anselm and Monsef鈥檚 Amir are characters more or less cut out of whole cloth, but Groener鈥檚 Kurt and Sloyan鈥檚 Srilanka flirt with parody.
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.
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鈥檚 taunt was not a lie cut out of whole cloth.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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