They involve swearing
Else clues• #@*! and such
• Drat! and Egad!
• Drat! and Shazam!
• Egads! and Gadzooks!
• Gosh darn! and worse
• Nerts! and others
• Rats! and others
• Rats! et al.
• Affirmations
• Allegiance affirmations
• Blasphemous terms
• Bleeped words
• Blue language
• Blue utterances
• Boy Scouts take them
• Breakable words
• Court proceedings
• Court rituals
• Court statements
• Courtroom rituals
• Courtroom statements
• Curse words
• Curses
• Cusswords
• Don't lie under them
• Egad and drat
• Expletives
• Formal promises
• Four-letter words
• Four-letter words, sometimes
• Hippocratic and Boy Scout
• I do's
• Imprecations
• Inaugural recitations
• Inauguration Day vows
• Jurors take them
• Officeholders take them
• Offices may require them
• People raise their hands for them
• Pledges
• Presidential affirmations
• Promises
• Promises crop around height (5)
• Promises of allegiance
• Promising words
• Recitals showing promise
• Ritualistic declarations
• Salty language
• Scouts take them
• Solemn appeals
• Solemn attestations
• Solemn pledges
• Solemn promises
• Solemn sayings
• Solemn statements
• Solemn vows
• Solemn words
• Some are solemn
• Statements taken by officials
• Swear words
• Swearing
• Swearing to tell the truth, and others
• Swearing-in ceremonies
• Swearing-in pledges
• Swearing-in words
• Sworn promises
• Sworn statements
• Sworn words
• They make people raise their hands
• They may be bleeped
• They may be made with Bibles
• They may be taken on bibles
• They may be taken with a hand in the air
• They may be taken with a raised hand
• They're given in court
• They're sworn
• They're taken in court
• They're taken in courtrooms
• They're taken on stands
• They're taken on the stand
• Trial rituals
• Unprintable outbursts
• Verbal commitments
• Vows
• Vows or curses
• Wedding promises
• Witness stand statements
• Words of honor
• You don't want to lie under them