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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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warts and all
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A phrase used for the unadorned truth. According to Horace *Walpole's Anecdotes of Painting (1762–71), Oliver *Cromwell instructed *Lely to paint him 'with all these roughnesses, pimples, warts and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it'.
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