"To face the music" means to accept the consequences or deal with the unpleasant or difficult situation that you have caused or are involved in.
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Similarly, nobody can threaten anybody else during a meeting and expect the confidentiality rules to protect them from having to
face the music flowing from such a threat.
But after being coerced into working for a crime boss (KEVIN SPACEY), he must
face the music when a doomed heist threatens his life, love and freedom.
Congressman John Faso
faces the music at the monthly breakfast meeting of the Ulster Regional Chamber of Commerce at the Best Western in Kingston on Thursday.
Andrew Mitchell finally
faces the music as he appears in front of the international development committee to explain why he reversed the cut to UK aid to Rwanda.
«It is time Gordon Brown
faced the music for the damage he's done to British pensions,» said shadow chancellor George Osborne.
Sadler credits include Power (Starz), Our Cartoon President (Showtime) the upcoming Bill &
Ted Face the Music film.
The country stars first met briefly backstage at the
New Faces music festival in Nashville in 1994, according to CNN.
Facing the music so soon after the weekend should help me curtail my Saturday and Sunday indulgences.
After becoming disenchanted with its push to get an older crowd to turn to the Wii, Sega is
now facing the music and looking at the Nintendo console without a lot of optimism...
If Faso wo
n't face the music and enough people don't dig his tune, well, we can vote him out.
Others wait to see what the lay of the land will be like closer to a campaign before hastily saying goodbye, only to end up forcing their successor to
face the music without much time to make an impression.
Although the service is still in beta, Colu has already made a partnership with Revelator, a company that is building a rights management API that will help to alleviate many of the
problems facing the music industry.
Monday has been chocked - full of sports betting news with the New York Giants cleaning house,
Gronk facing the music, sharps pounding Army / Navy, and more.
Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho was left to
face the music on Tuesday night as his side suffered a surprise Champions League exit at the hands of Sevilla.
That has to be of huge relief for the Spaniard, who is a talented manager in my honest and humble opinion, because any other manager in his situation − at the helm of a team which has lost its previous seven league matches − would have more than
likely faced the music by now.
Poor decisions at school: I've worked with many parents whose kids get into trouble at school for the way they acted, but instead of letting their
child face the music, they try to bail their kid out.
Mr Cameron and Mr Miliband will face the music consecutively
In an effort to
delay facing the music at home, he heads to a local bar and encounters an old friend (Ethan Embry, Empire Records).
YOUR SISTER»S SISTER Starring: Emily Blunt and Rosemarie DeWitt Directed by: Lynn Shelton Invited by a female friend to vacation with her family after the death of his brother, a young man must
face the music after sleeping with her sister.
Projected on a huge, vertical surface just in front of the altar, her hallucinatory reinterpretation of the traditional children's story includes masturbation, in - your -
face music video aesthetics and perversion, both consumeristic and sexual.
Alex Katz:
Face the Music surveys Katz's career - long involvement with dance, reproducing canvases, cartoons, drawings and studies in oil.
The Prime Minister had left junior climate change minister Greg Combet behind in Canberra to
face the music alone over the scrapping of the botched home insulation scheme.
Plimer challenged Monbiot to a face - to - face debate: Monbiot responded in «Why can't the champion of climate change
denial face the music?»
«Masters» of relationships build a culture of positive perspective and turn towards each other in moments of harmony and discord alike — and this is made possible by their repeated choice to
face the music together.
But after being coerced into working for a crime boss (Kevin Spacey), he must
face the music when a doomed heist threatens his life, love and freedom.
You'll have to
face the music as far as efficiency is concerned: the Land Cruiser is quite expensive to run, mostly because the two engines are far away from the general idea of fuel efficiency.
«We therefore appeal to you sir (CP) to use your good offices to make the intruders to
face the music for their criminal acts and gross violation of the law.
To his critics, he came across as petulant and immature, unable to handle the disappointing loss on the biggest stage and unwilling to
face the music in defeat.
There are a thousand possible answers to such a question, but let's
just face the music and jump to the hardest and most troublesome answer of all: If Jesus did not rise from the dead, probably most of Christianity is a lie.
When his good friend Molly (Scarlet Johansson) points out that he hasn't been truly happy in some time, Casper can't help but
face the music about his life and ambition.