2018年1月14日 星期日

warts and all, pimp (one's) ride, ride-pimping extravaganza


BUSINESS
Custom cars dazzle at Tokyo's ride-pimping
extravaganza
BY KEVIN BUCKLAND

It's Japan's biggest custom-car show. The Tokyo Auto Salon has hundreds of exhibitors — from automotive titans like Toyota and Mercedes to tire makers, tool makers and toy makers — who all want to show you how to tune up, dress up, or otherwise ...




'Cecil B. DeMille: A Life in Art'

By SIMON LOUVISH
Reviewed by ANDREW SARRIS

A warts-and-all biography of the director who provided manna and circuses.


pimp (one's) ride

verb
to customize an automobile.
They really pimped my ride good. Come on over and check it out!





warts and all

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]

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