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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]
American Heritage Idioms
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Phrase(s): warts and all
Cliché even with the flaws. • It’s a great performance—warts and all. • Yes, we admire each other very much, warts and all.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs