Damage Control (American English Slang) / Doing Damage Control | Learn American English

Damage control is a common American English slang expression. It means that you want to minimize or control a bad situation. And you definitely want to prevent it from getting worse. Damage control = trying to contain a bad situation. Damage Control Examples: "He's going to have to do damage control with his boss after what he said about him." "They're doing damage control after what that politician said." ------------------------------------------------ More English slang expressions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgEvF_xHCpQ ----------------------------------------------- Want to find out more? Check out: https://eslspeaking.org/american-english-slang/ American English Slang: https://amzn.to/3oo2OYB https://www.facebook.com/eslspeaking https://www.pinterest.ca/eslspeaking/ #slang #englishslang #learningenglishwithjackie #englishexpressions #learnenglish #linguamarina #english101 ----------------------------------------------------------- Learn English here: https://eslspeaking.org/category/learn-english/ ------------------------------------------------------------- More English slang expressions from @Sunday Cool Tees https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtrxVWf91Jo ---------------------------------------------------------- Transcript: Hi, it's Jackie from ESLspeaking.org. So today's slang is "damage control." Usually, you hear it as, "Doing damage control." That means that if there's a very big problem, maybe at your company and you don't want your customers to leave or to know too much about it, you could be doing some things to control that problem. So that's called doing damage control. Or maybe if your husband does something very, very bad, and all of your friends are very angry and talking about it, you might do damage control. Take some action and talk to your friends because you don't want to lose all your friends. Alright, please hit like, subscribe, leave a comment and check out my book on Amazon: American English Slang. Bye, everybody.