How to say "damage control" (to minimize damage to reputation) Damage control means:

&quot;action taken to limit the damaging effects of an accident or error.&quot; (Lexico)
&quot;measures taken to offset or minimize damage to reputation, credibility, or public image caused by a controversial act, remark, or revelation&quot; (Merriam-Webster)

How can we translate &quot;damage control&quot; and &quot;do damage control&quot; into Chinese, especially when the actions are done primarily to minimize damage to reputation?
Do Mandarin people use 補鑊 as slang to represent fence-mending or damage control? suggests 補救 (bǔjiù, to remedy), which is more general, and &quot;remedy&quot; doesn't have the connotation of wanting to preserve reputation.
In the navies and the maritime industry, damage control is the emergency control of situations that may cause the sinking of a watercraft. It is translated as 损害控制 (damage control).
损害控制 can also be used metaphorically for &quot;preventing damages to become more severe&quot;
Example:
The White House staffers have to do damage control for the president's deranged tweets almost every day --&gt; 白宫人员几乎每天都要对总统失控的推文进行损害控制. Metaphorically compare the damage caused by the president's tweets to ship-sinking damage (the damage is done, all you can do is not letting the ship sinks).
It would be easier in Cantonese -- 白宫人员几乎日日都要帮总统失控嘅推文补镬.

(to minimize damage to reputation)

The term 公关补救 (PR remedy) seems to fit
We can use a Cantonese slang 解畫 for that -- a metaphor for &quot;to spin; to explain away the problem&quot; I am not sure it is used in Mandarin or not