{Doq bIQtIq bIQ.} ("The river water is red.")
{Doq bIQtIq.} ("The river is red.")

This expression, heard in both variants, means that something momentous has happened, perhaps a major victory. One might say {romuluS yo' wIjeyta'} ("We've defeated the Romulan fleet"; {yo',} "fleet"; {wIjeyta',} "We have succeeded in defeating it") and then add, to point out the significance of the occasion, {Doq bIQtIq bIQ} ("The river water is red"; {Doq,} "be red"; {bIQtIq,} "river"; {bIQ,} "water"). The phrase can be traced back to an old drinking song that commemorates the slaying of the tyrant Molor by Kahless. On that day, according to the song, the River Skral ran red; that is, it was filled with the blood of Molor.

The Klingon word {Doq} ("be red"), which occurs in the song as well as in the idiom, really means much more than "red." It refers to a rather wide spectrum of colors ranging from deep red to bright orange and includes pink. Nearly all Klingon bodily fluids, including blood, can be described as {Doq}.