Synonyms for Paying piper:

• v.

  •bite the bullet (verb)
  • cross the Rubicon,
  • know no alternative,
  • be forced,
  • leap into the breach,
  • pay the piper,
  • bow to fate,
  • swallow the pill,
  • take the rap,
  • face the music,
  • stand up and take it,
  • take it,
  • take one's medicine,
  • suck it up,
  • seize the opportunity,
  • have no choice.
  •face the music (verb)
  • face the facts,
  • be punished,
  • look square in the eye,
  • come to grips with,
  • take one's lumps,
  • face up to it,
  • grin and bear it,
  • face up to,
  • make one's bed and lie on it,
  • take the consequences,
  • bite the bullet.