warts and all

• warts-and-all

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warts and all (not comparable)

1. (idiomatic, informal, often hyphenated) Of or pertaining to a description or other depiction which reveals the full range of characteristics of a person or thing, including the shortcomings and imperfections.
   • 1957 October 14, “The Last Days of Freud”, in Time:

     Biographer Jones, for all his hero worship, belongs to the warts-and-all school, and notes some strange quirks in Freud's character.

warts and all (not comparable)

1. (idiomatic, informal) In a manner which does not conceal shortcomings or imperfections.
   • 2003 January 14, Donna Freydkin, “Young and voyeuristic”, in USA Today:

     The new crop of reality shows brings us that much closer to the contestants, warts and all.

   • 2021 December 29, Paul Stephen, “Rail's accident investigators”, in RAIL, number 947, page 33:

     "We are very open and publish everything we investigate in detailed reports - warts and all," adds French.

• bare all
• bare one's soul
• leave nothing to the imagination
• tell-all
• the gory details

• “warts and all”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)
• “warts and all”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.