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I Have A Dream Posted 20 years ago
Vocabulary

face the music

In the sentence : There is no need for you to worry.If anything goes wrong. It is he who will have to face the music.

what's "face the music" meaning?
  

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So far as we can discover, the expression was originally an American one. The first recorded use is in the Congressional Globe for 4 March 1850: “There should be no skulking or dodging ... every man should ‘face the music’ ”.

— Lucrezia

  • So far as we can discover, the expression was originally an American one.
  • The first recorded use is in the Congressional Globe for 4 March 1850: “There should be no skulking or dodging ...
  • every man should ‘face the music’ ”.
  • It seems then to have had the meaning of facing hardship or danger .
  • Only in the 1860s did it take on the sense it now usually has, of taking the consequences of one’s action, or suffering due punishment for some transgression.
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So far as we can discover, the expression was originally an American one. The first recorded use is in the Congressional Globe for 4 March 1850: “There should be no skulking or dodging ... every man should ‘face the music’ ”. It seems then to have had the meaning of facing hardship or danger. Only in the 1860s did it take on the sense it now usually has, of
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'Face the music' means you have to carry the consequences of your acts.

Inchoate
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search before at:
with
music
(one of the keywords in the idiom)

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Moreover, "music" in "face the music" is something of a euphemism, as it usually implies "extreme displeasure on someone else's part".

MrP
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