"face the music" meaning in All languages combined

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          "text": "Hudson personally would not face the music at that meeting and the business could hardly proceed for groans and hisses and cries of \"Hudson! Hudson! Why is Hudson not here?\" and so the ungrateful shareholders to whom Hudson had generously paid dividends out of their own capital cast out Hudson bag and baggage, including therein the agreement with the Newmarket Railway.",
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        "(idiomatic) To accept or confront the unpleasant consequences of one's actions."
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          "word": "eneby an sewyansow"
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          "sense": "to accept or confront the unpleasant consequences of one’s actions",
          "word": "kestää seuraukset"
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          "sense": "to accept or confront the unpleasant consequences of one’s actions",
          "word": "vastata seurauksista"
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          "sense": "to accept or confront the unpleasant consequences of one’s actions",
          "word": "den Kopf hinhalten"
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          "sense": "to accept or confront the unpleasant consequences of one’s actions",
          "word": "die Suppe auslöffeln"
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          "sense": "to accept or confront the unpleasant consequences of one’s actions",
          "word": "súpa seyðið"
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          "sense": "to accept or confront the unpleasant consequences of one’s actions",
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          "sense": "to accept or confront the unpleasant consequences of one’s actions",
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          "sense": "to accept or confront the unpleasant consequences of one’s actions",
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          "word": "stå sitt kast"
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          "sense": "to accept or confront the unpleasant consequences of one’s actions",
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      "word": "eneby an sewyansow"
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      "word": "kestää seuraukset"
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      "sense": "to accept or confront the unpleasant consequences of one’s actions",
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      "sense": "to accept or confront the unpleasant consequences of one’s actions",
      "word": "den Kopf hinhalten"
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      "sense": "to accept or confront the unpleasant consequences of one’s actions",
      "word": "die Suppe auslöffeln"
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      "sense": "to accept or confront the unpleasant consequences of one’s actions",
      "word": "súpa seyðið"
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      "sense": "to accept or confront the unpleasant consequences of one’s actions",
      "word": "far fronte alla tempesta"
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      "note": "受け止める (うけとめる, uketomeru, literally “to catch and stop”)",
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      "sense": "to accept or confront the unpleasant consequences of one’s actions",
      "word": "arcar com as consequências"
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      "word": "расхлёбывать ка́шу"
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      "sense": "to accept or confront the unpleasant consequences of one’s actions",
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      "sense": "to accept or confront the unpleasant consequences of one’s actions",
      "word": "apencar"
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      "sense": "to accept or confront the unpleasant consequences of one’s actions",
      "word": "stå sitt kast"
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      "sense": "to accept or confront the unpleasant consequences of one’s actions",
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