damage control
Noun
Meaning
an effort to minimize or curtail damage or loss
Source: WordNetHypernyms
Examples
I believe in having each device secured and monitoring each device, rather than just monitoring holistically on the network, and then responding in short enough time for damage control.
This is less teaching than damage control. You may as well paint a house that's on fire.
No-one will ever tell me that Brexit is a good thing because as I have always said, in fact, Brexit is only about damage control.
When I finally made it to the set, I spent a lot of time doing damage control on The Magic Christian.
The lesson is, because there will be many lemons in life, to learn to make the proverbial lemonade - and be open and honest. That's the best way of doing damage control and positioning yourself for success.
I understand there's damage control to do on my image, but people are always gonna have their opinion of me no matter what. I understand 100 people may like me and 1,000 people may hate me. That's fine.