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take the consequences

VERB

face the music

Synonyms

WEAK

be punished bite the bullet come to grips with face the facts face up to face up to it grin and bear it look square in the eye make one's bed and lie on it pay the piper swallow the pill take one's lumps take one's medicine

Example Sentences

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But you gotta be prepared to take the consequences of your words.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2025

Yet, there seems little appetite in the industry to take the consequences of that type of coverage seriously.

From Salon • Nov. 27, 2022

He now owns it all and will take the consequences.

From Washington Post • Aug. 31, 2021

I’m willing to admit to my son that I made a really bad decision and take the consequences.

From Slate • Feb. 14, 2018

All right, then...if she wanted to tail him, she’d have to take the consequences....

From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling