face the music

Definitions

To accept or confront the unpleasant consequences of one's actions.

idiomatic

Equivalents

Examples

“As for that husband of yours, I don't think⟳ much of him, and I tell⟳ you so candidly. Running away and leaving you to face⟳ the music.”

“Hudson personally would not face⟳ the music at that meeting and the business could hardly proceed for groans and hisses and cries of "Hudson! Hudson! Why is Hudson not here?" and so the ungrateful shareholders to whom Hudson had generously paid dividends out of their own⟳ capital cast⟳ out Hudson bag and baggage, including therein the agreement with the Newmarket Railway.”

“Trevor Philips (Steven Ogg): Time to face⟳ the music!”

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