facing the music
Confronting your results
Facing the music means confronting unpleasant consequences or criticism for one's actions.
The phrase implies accepting responsibility rather than avoiding it: After the scandal broke, the CEO had to face the music at the press conference.
You lied to them—now it's time to face the music.
- admissionEntry or confession
- repercussionsIndirect results of actions
- fortitudeEnduring courage under pain
- bite the bulletAccept inevitable hardship
- man upEmbrace toughness, colloquially
owning up · punishment · honesty · confession · come clean · composure · culpability · taking responsibility · answerability · integrity · atonement · acceptance · tough love · reckoning · courage · restitution · bravery · acknowledgment
facing the musicrunning away
Rapid departure from danger
passing the buck · burying one's head in the sand · making excuses · scapegoating · pointing fingers
facing the musicrunning away
Rapid departure from danger
fleeing · chickening out · backing down · turning tail · copping out
face, faced, facing, faces, facial, facially, deface, defaced, defacement