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Definition: Face The Music |
Face The MusicVerb1. Accept the unpleasant consequences of one's actions. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Courage | Put a bold face upon; show a bold front, present a bold front; show fight; face the music. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Movie/TV Titles | Face the Music (1954) | |
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Music |
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Expression using "face the music": to face the music. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
let face the music and dance | 8 |
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| Language | Translations for "face the music"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | përballoj me guxim kritikën ose vështirësi, jam përgjegjës. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | عدم التهرب. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | sníst, co jsme si nadrobili, snést následky. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | affronter la tempête. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | die Suppe auslöffeln (to face the music). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αντικρύω την μουσική. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לקבל את "עו ש (take the rap), לא ל"תחמק. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szembenéz a tényekkel (face facts, to face the issue, to keep one's powder dry, to meet the emergency), szembenéz a következményekkel (to face the consequences, to put up with the consequences, to take the consequences). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | affrontare coraggiosamente una situazione difficile. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | acefay ethay usicmay aceitar as consequências. (various references) se ţine tare într-o situaţie grea, nu crâcni. (various references) расплачиваться за, держать ответ. (various references) suočiti se sa posledicama. (various references) pagar el pato (take the rap), afrontar las consecuencias, afrontar bravamente. (various references) ta konsekvenserna, stå sitt kast. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-e-f-h-i-m-s-t-u" | |
-3 letters: catechism, schematic. | |
-4 letters: autecism, catechus, chiefest, fetiches, hematics, machetes, mastiche, misteach, mustache, sachemic, seecatch, tachisme, tumefies. | |
-5 letters: achiest, aitches, ascetic, atheism, cachets, caesium, catches, catechu, catfish, caustic, chamise, chasmic, chemics, chemise, chemist, chicest, cutches, cutesie, emetics, escheat, faucets, fetches, fitchee, fitches, fuchsia, fumiest, heaumes, hematic, humates, macchie, machete, matches, mutches, sematic, smectic, tachism. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Expressions | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Bibliography |
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