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Definition of face the music

face the music

verb

  • to accept responsibility for one's actions and face punishment.
    I'm just going to have to face the music and go to court for the DUI charge.
                                                                                                                              

    Citation from "Failure is Not a Factory-Installed Option", American Dad! (TV), Season 2 Episode 3 (2006) censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.

    Last edited on Mar 02 2013. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Sep 09 2009.

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Other terms relating to 'face':

Definitions include: an ugly face.
Definitions include: a person who behaves in an offensive, pompous manner; "ass".
Definitions include: a lie that is so obvious that it is detected immediately.
Definitions include: a general insult.
Definitions include: a bitch.
Definitions include: a woman with an attractive body, but an ugly face.
Definitions include: a person who is butt ugly or stupid.
Definitions include: a person who has large, deep, pit-like scars on their face, typically caused by severe acne.
Definitions include: a general insult.
Definitions include: an unkind person; "jerk"; "ass".
Definitions include: extremely ugly; "hideous".
Definitions include: form of address for an attractive person or one's significant other.
Definitions include: ugly.
Definitions include: the face made by puckering one's lips as if to kiss someone.
Definitions include: acronym for "face to face".

Other terms relating to 'music':

Definitions include: idle talk, chatter.
Definitions include: background music.
Definitions include: This is a love poem by Paul Douglas Fisher.
Definitions include: loud flatulence.

Other terms relating to 'the':

Definitions include: the real information or the proof, instruction, the know how, where, when, and why about something or someone.
Definitions include: walking, generally as opposed to driving.
Definitions include: interrogation.
Definitions include: extremely intoxicated
Definitions include: information.
Definitions include: something you have now is worth more than two things you have just a chance of getting.
Definitions include: a good estimate.
Definitions include: a secret advantage.
Definitions include: inclusive.
Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse.
Definitions include: with the amount of time left to finish a task rapidly disappearing.
Definitions include: having an opinion or belief prior to it becoming common or popular.
Definitions include: of a male, to urinate.
Definitions include: Someone being butthurt over having something, they do to others regularly, done to the them
Definitions include: secret sexual activity with a person other than one's partner.

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