This is where the English phrase 'warts and all' comes from...

Rav: These people are all taking selfies.

Afterwards, a lot of them will edit the picture

using filters.

Rav: If I said the phrase to you 'warts and all',

what would I mean?

Man 1: Well I'd understand it to mean

the worst and the best. I think it possibly comes from

portrait painting, so in a time before we were able

to digitally enhance images or soft-focus them,

when the artist would have to take the blemishes out

of the image by painting them out

or not including them in the first place.

Man 2: If you're describing something to someone

and there's good sides and bad sides, it means

I'm going to hear some of the bad sides as well.

Woman: Something is bad, but you kind of

take everything as it is.

Rav: Give me a sentence where you would use

that phrase.

Man 1: So, having just moved into the house,

I asked my neighbour to tell me what the neighbour

on the other side was like and make sure that

it was warts and all, so that I'd really know

what I was in for living next door to them.

Rav: This is Oliver Cromwell.

He was a very important man in British history.

In 1653, an artist named Samuel Cooper was asked

to paint Cromwell's portrait.

Now, Cromwell had several large warts on his face.

So, when Cooper started sketching,

he tried to smooth out Cromwell's face

to make him look more attractive -

a bit like we do when we use filters.

When Cromwell saw what the artist had done,

he said he preferred the portrait

to show him with pimples, warts and everything.

Over time, this was shortened to the phrase

'warts and all'.

Rav: So, next time you try and alter your appearance

for a photograph, remember, in London,

sometimes it's better to show yourselves...

People: Warts and all!