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warts and all

Idioms  
  1. 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]


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A "warts and all" assessment of the impact of the North Coast 500 road trip has been ordered amid concerns about overtourism.

From BBC • Dec. 9, 2025

Having spent nearly 50 years telling America’s stories, warts and all, Ken Burns knows better than to traffic in the reassurance business.

From Salon • Jul. 17, 2025

Some see Crowther as an unfairly maligned man of his time, and his effigy as an important part of the state’s history, warts and all.

From BBC • Sep. 14, 2024

Loving your country means loving it warts and all.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2024

I had two miraculous cures: one would cause to disappear from the human nose pimples, warts and all other disfiguring excrescences; the other would transform silver into gold.

From Told by the Death's Head A Romantic Tale by J?kai, M?r

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