To face the music
Meaning: To confront the unpleasant consequences of your actions.
Language: English
Literally: To face the music
Category: Daily Life
Origin: Possibly theatrical — facing the orchestra pit and the audience — or military, from drumming a disgraced soldier out.
More idioms — Daily Life
- To add insult to injury — To make a bad situation worse by a further offence.
- Aus dem Häuschen sein — To be beside yourself with excitement.
- No dar pie con bola — To get everything wrong; to do nothing right.
- Capire fischi per fiaschi — To misunderstand completely.
- Avere un chiodo fisso — To be obsessed with one idea.
- Tirar o pai da forca — Said of something done in frantic urgency.
More English idioms
- To butter someone up — To flatter someone to win their favour.
- Russian roulette — Any high-risk activity undertaken needlessly, where disaster may strike without warning.
- pull back the curtain — To expose a hidden truth or reality behind an appearance.
- present company excepted — These remarks do not apply to anyone currently present in this conversation.
- on sufferance — Tolerated reluctantly and only because one has no better choice.
- set in stone — Unchangeable and permanent, fixed beyond modification.
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