face up to something phrasal verb ( see also ↑ face )
to accept and deal with a difficult fact or problem:
They’ll never offer you another job; you might as well face up to it.
She had to face up to the fact that he was guilty.
face up to something phrasal verb ( see also ↑ face )
to accept and deal with a difficult fact or problem:
They’ll never offer you another job; you might as well face up to it.
She had to face up to the fact that he was guilty.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English. Longman - Словарь современного английского языка. 2012