Receive punishment
Accept unpleasant consequences of your actions
Be confronted with disagreeable results
Accept criticism for something that you have done
If you have done something wrong, you have to face the music. There’s no escaping out of it.
The children broke the window pane while playing and had to face the music when their parents returned home.
If you don’t complete the project on time, you will have to face the music when the boss asks for a status report.
If you keep breaking the rules, sooner or later you will be caught and then you will have to face the music.
He was part of an illegal racing gang, and had to face the music when they were busted.
Having failed his English test, he had to go home and face the music.
There is no origin for this idiom
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