词组 | face the music |
释义 | Idiom face the music Theme: JUSTICE to receive punishment; to accept the unpleasant results of one's actions.Mary broke a dining-room window and had to face the music when her father got home.After failing a math test, Tom had to go home and face the music. Idiom face the music Theme: ACCEPTANCE to receive punishment; to accept the unpleasant results of one's actions.Mary broke a dining-room window and had to face the music when her father got home.After failing a math test, Tom had to go home and face the music. Slang face the music Theme: ACCEPTANCE tr. to receive the rebuke that is due one.You had better go in and face the music now.You have to face the music eventually. Idiom face the music to accept criticism or punishment for something that you have done.When the missing money was noticed, he chose to disappear rather than face the music. face the musicTo experience negative repercussions for one's actions or words, especially those that one would expect to incur punishment. I told you not to try to sneak in, and now that you've been caught, you're just going to have to face the music. If we do nothing to curb this pollution, I guarantee we will face the music in the future. face the musicFig. to receive punishment; to accept the unpleasant results of one's actions. Mary broke a dining-room window and had to face the music when her father got home. After failing a math test, Tom had to go home and face the music. face the musicConfront unpleasantness, especially the consequences of one's errors. For example, When the check bounced, he had to face the music. The precise allusion in this expression has been lost. Most authorities believe it refers to a theater's pit orchestra, which an actor must face when he faces what can be a hostile audience, but some hold it comes from the military, where a formal dismissal in disgrace would be accompanied by band music. [Second half of 1800s] Also see face up to. face the musicCOMMON If you face the music, you accept responsibility for something that you have done wrong and you prepare yourself to be criticized or punished for it. We were foreigners in a forbidden area, the authorities had found out and we were about to face the music. Sooner or later, she'll have to face the music and it won't be pleasant. Note: The `music' in this expression may refer to the orchestra at an opera or musical. The orchestra sits in front of the stage, so when a performer faces the audience, they also face the orchestra, or `music'. Alternatively, the expression may come from an army practice in which a soldier who had been dismissed for dishonourable behaviour was sent away with drums beating. face the musicbe confronted with the unpleasant consequences of your actions.face the ˈmusic(informal) accept the difficulties, criticism and unpleasant results that your words or actions may cause: He’s been cheating us out of our money for years and now it’s time for him to face the music.face the music tv. to receive the rebuke that is due one. (see also chinmusic.) You have to face the music eventually. face the music To accept the unpleasant consequences, especially of one's own actions. face the music, toTo meet the consequences of one’s bad behavior, mistakes, and the like; to confront difficulties bravely. This term, American in origin, is believed to come from the theater and refers to the orchestra in the pit, which an actor must face along with a perhaps hostile audience. Another writer suggests it comes from the armed services, where a soldier’s dismissal in disgrace might be accompanied by the band’s playing the “Rogue’s March.” An 1871 book of American sayings quotes James Fenimore Cooper discussing, about 1851, Rabelais’s “unpleasant quarter [of an hour],” when the French writer found he could not pay his bill and turned on the innkeeper with an accusation of treason, which so frightened him that he let Rabelais leave without paying. Cooper said that “our more picturesque people” called this facing the music. A less picturesque synonym is to face up to something. |
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