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.

including all faults or other unpleasant facts Because no one is perfect, you have to accept people warts and all.

if you describe or show someone or something warts and all, you do not try to hide the bad things about them He tried to portray the president as he was, warts and all.

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]

All defects and imperfections notwithstanding: They love each other, warts and all.

Without sparing any literal or figurative blemishes. The phrase is attributed to England's Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell, who ordered Sir John Lely, the artist painting his portrait, not to flatter him, but to paint him with any and all physical imperfections . . . “‘warts and all.” As many people over the years credited Cromwell with the phrase, there is no definite proof that he did indeed use it. Still, if he didn't, he should have.