| 单词 | warts and all |
| 释义 | warts and allSEE SYNONYMS FOR warts and all ON THESAURUS.COM 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] Words nearby warts and allwart cress, Warthin's tumor, warthog, wartime, Warton, warts and all, wart snake, warty, warty dyskeratoma, war-weary, war whoop The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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