The accurate totality of someone or something, including the imperfections: Audiences hearing the local orchestra week after week hear it with warts and all/ Your friends see Doherty, warts and all/ Lyndon Johnson, warts and all
[1763+; fr the putative remark of Oliver Cromwell to his portraitist Peter Lely: ''Remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me'']