See whole cloth on Wiktionary
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"A newly made textile which has not yet been cut."
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"text": "Mr. Doe's account of the accident was made from whole cloth."
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"ref": "1917, Sydney Brooks, “What Great Britain is Doing”, in National Geographic",
"text": "All those tales that came clicking over the wireless of the capture of huge stores of grain and oil were fables out of whole cloth.",
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"(uncountable, figurative, used attributively or preceded by various prepositions) The fictitious material from which complete fabrications, lies with no basis in truth, are made."
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"_dis1": "8 90 2",
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "complete fabrication",
"word": "tuulesta temmattu"
},
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"_dis1": "8 90 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "complete fabrication",
"word": "frei erfunden"
},
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "complete fabrication",
"word": "di sana pianta"
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"ref": "1852, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, by Karl Marx, chapter I (translated by Daniel De Leon)",
"text": "Man makes his own history, but he does not make it out of the whole cloth; he does not make it out of conditions chosen by himself, but out of such as he finds close at hand."
},
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"text": "1988, R. v. Morgentaler, a case heard in the Supreme Court of Canada\nThe decisions made by judges, however, and the interpretations that they advance or accept must be plausibly inferable from something in the Charter. It is not for the courts to manufacture a constitutional right out of whole cloth."
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"Something made completely new, with no history, and not based on anything else."
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"(uncountable) Something made completely new, with no history, and not based on anything else."
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "something not based on anything else",
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},
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"ref": "1852, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, by Karl Marx, chapter I (translated by Daniel De Leon)",
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},
{
"text": "1988, R. v. Morgentaler, a case heard in the Supreme Court of Canada\nThe decisions made by judges, however, and the interpretations that they advance or accept must be plausibly inferable from something in the Charter. It is not for the courts to manufacture a constitutional right out of whole cloth."
}
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "complete fabrication",
"word": "tuulesta temmattu"
},
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"lang": "German",
"sense": "complete fabrication",
"word": "frei erfunden"
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"sense": "complete fabrication",
"word": "di sana pianta"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "something not based on anything else",
"word": "tyhjä"
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],
"word": "whole cloth"
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