an attempt to reduce damage caused by a previous failure, when fixing such a failure is either temporarily or permanently impossible, or undesirable due to risk
Ex 1:
Bill: I lost 50 grand...I'm definitely gonna win them back next game. I feel good about this, man.
Dave: Nah, you should be on damage control. Consider your 50 grand a sunk cost.
Ex 2:
James: I can't believe I missed that event...there's not a fuck I can do now.
Steve: You'll have to workextrahard to play catch up. You're on damage control now.
1) Mafia guy: "We've hit that mother and she saw we were carrying drugs, we gotta do some damage control".
2) Company guy: "An employee left the beta version of his iPhone in a bar, we sent the security for some damage control".
This is when a woman whom has kids with another man wants to wait until marriage before ever having sex ever again with her successors.
Look at this fuck-shit meme, it says "I am a single mother with two kids. However, I will wait 'til marriage to have sex again." TF?!?!! Is this some T.D.C. (Thot Damage Control) and shit?!?
Precedes or follows either a gratuitously disrespectful or honest remark, originated in New York City. Used in similar fashion to "no offense" or "to be honest," interchangeably.
Ya mans is wild buns, respectfully. Respectfully he's washed.
After school, The Modells on Jamaica Ave was active. Respectfully.