The first is face the music . It means to accept the results of what you have done.
Here is an example from a Reuters news report: Britain's highest court had ruled that former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was legally arrested.
Opponents of General Pinochet welcomed the news. One of them said, "We have waited for years for this man to face the music."
No one is sure how the expression began. One story is that it came from a military ceremony held when a soldier was forced out of an army.
The buttons were cut from the soldier's clothing. He was put on a horce, facing the back of the horse and led away.
As he left, he faced the music of a military band and the soldiers he had served with.
Another story says the expression began in the theater. New actors, shaking with fright, were told that they only cure was to go out and face the music.
