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Cut Cloth Entirely Fictional Or Utterly False; Completely Fabricated And Not Based On Reality At All.  A Reference To Tailors Who Would Falsely Advertise Garments Being Made "Out Of Whole Cloth," When, In Reality, They Were Pieced Together From Different Cuts To Be Honest, I Don't Believe A Word He Says—It Sounds Like It's Cut From Whole Cloth To Me

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Entirely fictional or utterly false; completely fabricated and not based on reality at all. 

A reference to tailors who would falsely advertise garments being made "out of whole cloth," when, in reality, they were pieced together from different cuts.

To be honest, I don't believe a word he says—it sounds like it's cut from whole cloth to me.

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