to get ahead of (something)

Welcome to English as a Second Language Podcast number 1,052 – A Product Recall.

This is English as a Second Language Podcast episode 1,052. I’m your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan, coming to you from the Center for Educational Development in beautiful Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

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This episode is a dialogue between Melissa and Lee about a company that made something with a problem and had to get people to send it back to them in order to fix it. Let’s get started.

Melissa: This is a disaster! If we have to recall 100,000 units, we’ll take a huge loss this year.

Lee: We have no choice. The product defect poses a safety hazard. If we don’t act quickly, we’ll have a huge liability issue on our hands.

Melissa: I think we’re blowing this out of proportion.