The expression Face The Music has two possible origins. The first possibility is that nervous actors and actresses, on an opening night, would have to go out on stage and quite literally “face the music” as the orchestra pit was directly in front of the stage. Sol, in this case “facing the music” meant going out and performing, rather than losing their bottle. The second suggested origin is that that a dishonourable military discharge would always result in the disgraced serviceman being marched off barracks to the sound of drums (being “drummed out”), in which case he too had “faced the music”.