Pardon My Klingon: Played straight in a number of cases – zakhrehs, for example, while glossable as, is not entirely cognate to, English barbarian – but played even straighter for words that aren’t expletives, but whose English gloss is too long to use in conversation, like valessëf, or valxíjir. Or it’s not-really-an-expletive shorter form jír, perhaps best glossed cojones.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://eldraeverse.com/2015/06/07/trope-a-day-pardon-my-klingon