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Rav
These people are all taking selfies. Afterwards, a lot of them will edit the picture using filters.

Rav
If I said the phrase to you 'warts and all', what would I mean?

Man 1
Well I'd understand it to mean the worst and the best. I think it possibly comes from portrait painting, so in a time before we were able to digitally enhance images or soft-focus them, when the artist would have to take the blemishes out of the image by painting them out or not including them in the first place.

Man 2
If you're describing something to someone and there's good sides and bad sides, it means I'm going to hear some of the bad sides as well.

Woman
Something is bad, but you kind of take everything as it is.

Rav
Give me a sentence where you would use that phrase.

Man 1
So, having just moved into the house, I asked my neighbour to tell me what the neighbour on the other side was like and make sure that it was warts and all, so that I'd really know what I was in for living next door to them.

Rav
This is Oliver Cromwell. He was a very important man in British history. In 1653, an artist named Samuel Cooper was asked to paint Cromwell's portrait. Now, Cromwell had several large warts on his face. So, when Cooper started sketching, he tried to smooth out Cromwell's face to make him look more attractive – a bit like we do when we use filters. When Cromwell saw what the artist had done, he said he preferred the portrait to show him with pimples, warts and everything. Over time, this was shortened to the phrase 'warts and all'.

Rav
So, next time you try and alter your appearance for a photograph, remember, in London, sometimes it's better to show yourselves…

People
Warts and all!

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