warts and all

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Mr Pettigrew said he welcomed the NC500 Ltd impact study "so long as it is warts and all" but said it was 10 years too late.

From BBC • Dec. 9, 2025

And though the book has its shortcomings, he rightly sees the movie as a kind of passkey into the history of the first half-century of Hollywood itself, warts and all.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2025

It is my job to try to bring you as clear a sense as I can of what is really going on at the heart of government, warts and all.

From BBC • Sep. 18, 2024

Her tough stance on terror, non-aligned foreign policy and efforts to help Rohingya refugees — “all of this has made her government, warts and all, fully acceptable to much of the world,” Kugelman said.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 7, 2024

Cromwell asked the painter to paint him, "warts and all."

From Fragments From France by Bairnsfather, Bruce