warts and all 的定义
- 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]
warts and all 近义词
等同于 openly
warts and all 的近义词 33 个
- blatantly
- brazenly
- candidly
- face to face
- flagrantly
- forthrightly
- fully
- honestly
- plainly
- publicly
- readily
- simply
- unabashedly
- unashamedly
- willingly
- aboveboard
- artlessly
- frankly
- in broad daylight
- in full view
- in public
- in the open
- ingenuously
- naively
- naturally
- shamelessly
- straight
- under one's nose
- unhesitatingly
- unreservedly
- wantonly
- without pretense
- without reserve
warts and all 的反义词 3 个
更多warts and all例句
- As an example of good science-and-society policymaking, the history of fluoride may be more of a cautionary tale.
- But along with the cartoon funk is an all-too-real story of police brutality embodied by a horde of evil Pigs.
- As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.
- The benefits of incumbency are quite potent, especially in the all-important area of raising campaign funds.
- The building used to be an all-girls school, and when it was initially purchased by Fortune it was dilapidated.
- She also practises etching, pen-and-ink drawing, as well as crayon and water-color sketching.
- He had discovered that the all-glorious boast of Spain was not exempt from the infirmities of common men.
- Naturally the conversation fell on the all-absorbing topic of the day and the object of his mission.
- No law of that country must exceed in words the number of letters in their alphabet, which consists only in two-and-twenty.
- Mr. Spurrell came down to see a horse, and we shall be very glad to have the benefit of his opinion by-and-by.