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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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As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.
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The benefits of incumbency are quite potent, especially in the all-important area of raising campaign funds.
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The building used to be an all-girls school, and when it was initially purchased by Fortune it was dilapidated.
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She also practises etching, pen-and-ink drawing, as well as crayon and water-color sketching.
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He had discovered that the all-glorious boast of Spain was not exempt from the infirmities of common men.
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Naturally the conversation fell on the all-absorbing topic of the day and the object of his mission.
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No law of that country must exceed in words the number of letters in their alphabet, which consists only in two-and-twenty.
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Mr. Spurrell came down to see a horse, and we shall be very glad to have the benefit of his opinion by-and-by.
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