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Face The Music

Definition: Face The Music

Face The Music

Verb

1. Accept the unpleasant consequences of one's actions.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms within Context: Face The Music

ContextSynonyms 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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Modern Usage: Face The Music

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Face the Music (1954)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Face The Music

DomainTitle

Books

  • Face the Music (The Cheery Bim Band Series Number 9) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expression: Face The Music

Expression using "face the music": to face the music. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Face The Music

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

let face the music and dance

8
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Face The Music

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

   

Portuguese

  

aceitar as consequências. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

se ţine tare într-o situaţie grea, nu crâcni. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

расплачиваться за, держать ответ. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

suočiti se sa posledicama. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

pagar el pato (take the rap), afrontar las consecuencias, afrontar bravamente. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

ta konsekvenserna, stå sitt kast. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Face The Music

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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