The lie was made by him out of whole cloth.

他凭空编造了那套谎言。

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I made them up out of whole cloth.

我相当于把它们从一整块布料中剪裁来。

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And although the Drudge Report has been guilty of some rumormongering, there is no evidence that Matt Drudge--or any other online journalist--has ever made up a story out of whole cloth, like The New Republics Stephen Glass.

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What could be more American than Fume Blanc, a wine that was essentially made up here on our shores out of whole cloth, invented to help California differentiate itself and pull out from under the shadow of French wines, something it has long since done.

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