Letting off air over external brake problems

‘Overkill’ is something which people are getting accustomed to.

You want to open a bank account, or buy land and need to transfer a quantity of hard-earned cash, and there’s a whole rigmarole of signatures and proof of identity needed, so the man in the moon knows that you are who you say are.

It’s essential security against money laundering, because thousands of miles away in a totally alien culture there are people who want to get ill-gotten cash into circulation.