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whole cloth adverb

  • (idiomatic) in full extent, wholesale, entirely, without changes or additions
 подчисту́ю, целико́м

whole cloth noun

  • (figurative, uncountable) Something made completely new, with no history, and not based on anything else.
 [[чи́стый]] [[ли́ст]]
  • (figurative, uncountable, used attributively, or, preceded by various prepositions) The fictitious material from which complete fabrications, lies with no basis in truth, are made.
 [[чистый|чисте́йшая]] [[вы́думка]]
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