cut out of whole cloth

To know Glover is to know there are layers of truth within a story that is mostly cut out of whole cloth.

George’s Anselm and Monsef’s Amir are characters more or less cut out of whole cloth, but Groener’s Kurt and Sloyan’s 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’s taunt was not a lie cut out of whole cloth.