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warts and all
Including all blemishes, faults, and shortcomings, as in Rather unwisely, they decided to buy the house, warts and all. This expression supposedly alludes to Oliver Cromwell's instruction to portrait painter Sir Peter Lely to “remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it.” [First half of 1600s]
Example Sentences
But receiving love for my whole self, warts and all—that was the first step toward transformation.
He would then find out that BBC DJ John Peel had got hold of a copy, and had told his listeners that the song – a poignant love letter to Liverpool, warts and all – had moved him to tears.
A rarer strain captures what it looks like, at this moment, warts and all.
Cody Recker and Jessica Perez loved their Boyle Heights rental — warts and all.
He believed people should be seen as they fully are, she said, “full human context, warts and all.”
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