The English We Speak: Warts and all

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🗓️ 5 November 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

An expression that means including all your imperfections.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the English We Speak, where we're explaining phrases used by fluent English speakers so that you can use them as well.
0:08.2	I'm Faye Faye and I'm here with Beth.
0:10.4	Hi everyone and hi Faye Faye. How are you?
0:13.0	I'm very well. Thank you, Beth.
0:14.8	We're learning what's and all, which I heard on a podcast about an autobiography.
0:20.5	An actress I like has written about her life.
0:24.2	Watts and all, she said. Ah yes, warts and all. It means that we talk about a person or a thing
0:30.5	exactly as it is, including flaws and imperfections. And the person doesn't have to actually have a real wot. No.
0:40.2	A wot is a lump on the skin. So this actress had some problems a few years ago and she included
0:47.1	all the details about that. So when you talk about difficult or unpleasant things, we can say
0:53.6	what's and all? Okay, I have an example for this.
0:56.8	So recently I was looking through some old photos of me when I was at school. So me and my friends
1:03.0	as teenagers and those photos were definitely not edited. We were there, warts and all.
1:09.8	Beth, I'm sure you look just fine there. Here are some more examples of warts and all. Beth, I'm sure you look just fine there.
1:12.3	Here are some more examples of warts and all.
1:19.3	I went away for the weekend with my best friend
1:22.1	and we had a really good time, but he does annoy me quite a lot.
1:26.2	But that's friendship, isn't it?
1:27.4	You've got to accept people warts and all annoy me quite a lot. But that's friendship, isn't it? You've got to
1:27.8	accept people warts and all. I adopted a cat and I love him warts and all. He's a bit scruffy.
1:35.0	Sometimes he's a bit naughty and ruins my furniture, but, you know, he's a great little friend.
1:41.3	I've just read this film review. It's one of the most honest I've ever seen.
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