E. M. Colocassides College of Tourism & Hotel Management, Doctor of Science in

Materials and results 
Most cultures consider certain numbers to be especially significant, even 
symbolic, what is reflected in their religions. For example, number seven is of 
particular importance in the Arabic traditions, which originate in the Middle East. 
Some civilizations like Sumerian and Babylonian identified seven planets and framed 
seven days of the week around them. Seven was also known as a “perfect” number, 
symbol of completeness and goodness. 
There are approximately twenty five references made to the number seven in the 
Quran, the sacred text of Muslims. These references usually concern the seven 
heavens, the seven periods of creation, seven groups of things, or seven individuals, 
such as the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus. Thus, the number seven is directly linked to 
the power of the divine and has great symbolic value as an expression of Muslim 
belief and the miracles of God. 
Since the questions of phraseological synonymy have been investigated by 
various authors from different points of view, phraseological units in a number of 
works have a different classification. So A.P.Khazanovich considers phraseological 
synonyms-idioms along two lines: 1) structural, highlighting the synonyms 
themselves, i.e. different but synonymous idioms; 2) semantic and stylistic. On the 
basis of the semantic-stylistic principle, synonyms-idioms are divided by the author 
into two large groups: equal and unequal. In turn, unequal synonyms are divided by 
the author into a) ideographic, b) stylistic, c) both ideographic and stylistic. In 
ideographic synonyms A.P. Khazanovich distinguishes four groups: a) synonyms, in 
which one or another side of a concept, a sign of an object, phenomenon, process, is 
especially emphasized; b) synonyms that differ in the amount of meaning, the scope 
of their application; c) synonyms that differ in the intensity of a common feature for 
the entire series; d) synonyms with different evaluative (subjective) coloration. 
Phraseological units with a quantitative component are based mainly on the 
semaclasses of "numerals" and "mesuratives". Especially widely in phraseological 
units with numerals are represented numerals one, two, odd numbers up to ten: three, 
five, seven, nine; the counting words dozen, score, etc., words with the meaning of 
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singularity and duality: single, alone, both, a pair, a couple, etc. are used less often. 
time, as well as monetary units. 
Two
heads are better than 
one
- 
Bir 
boshdan 
ikki 
bosh yaxshi; 
There are 
two
sides to every question - Har yaxshida 
bir 
ammo bor, Har 
yomonda 
bir
lekin;
In any language, in addition to the direct function of counting objects, number 
has a symbolic meaning, therefore it can act as a fortune-telling function or as a 
symbol of metaphysical reality, allowing you to more deeply comprehend this world 
and the person himself. The universality of the use of number as a sacred force is 
explained by the apocentric views of the world and the universal system of human 
development. The specificity in the interpretation of the symbolism of numbers 
manifests itself at the moment when it comes to the internal change of abstract-
theoretical views and figurative-sensory representations in the culture of the two 
peoples, i.e. events that occur around a person, cataclysms and historical upheavals 
determine the evolution of the concept of number and a change in attitude towards it. 
From the point of view of the ancient symbolic, the numbers seven and nine 
have common features. Nine is the end-the finish point of the digital series up to its 
return to one. Seven can also mean the whole period or cycle. Therefore the numerals 
in some cases can be interchangeable. Thus, in the phraseological unit “on cloud 
seven (nine)” meaning “very happy” the usage of both numerals, from by way of the 
symbolism is quite understandable for they symbolize the maximum of the possible, 
the limit. 
“The ten commandments” - is the first phraseological unit with the numeral 
“ten” deserves attention if it is observed from the symbolic point of view. “Ten” can 
symbolize the spiritual achievement, love to God and the nearest and dearest as it is 
mentioned in the “Comparative Dictionary of the Mythological Symbolism in the 
Indo-European languages”, that totally corresponds to this phraseological unit. The 
symbolism in the phraseological units “ten to one” and “the upper ten/ten thousand” 
(“the top of the society, aristocracy”) conforms with the interpretation of the number 
nine, the maximally possible, the limit.
The number symbolizing success and happiness according to the “Dictionary of 
Symbols and Imagery” is “six”. The phraseological unit “crooked sixpence” means 
“talisman” in the belief spread in England. It is a well-known fact that the number 
group from one to twelve is considered in some folks to be the higher unit, later 
confined into the basis of the further calculation. Some people still keep it on the 
measuring system, particularly in the inch system of the length measuring. Here 
appears the phraseological unit “six of one and half a dozen of the other” (“useless”) 
and the reason of the usage of “six” should be investigated not in itself, but in the 
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numeral “twelve”. E.g. “Mostly they come for skill- or idleness. Six of one and half a 
dozen of the other”. 
Conclusion 
Semantic modifications of mesurative elements in a phraseological context are 
due to the transformation of conceptual quantitative content into a qualitative one. 
With full or partial preservation of the numeral-mesurative components of the 
quantitative content of a phraseological unit with a numeral, quantitative meanings 
are realized, when desemantizing the quantitative meaning of a phraseological unit 
with a numeral, they express the qualitative-evaluative (sometimes subject) value of 
the quantity and can have completely different lexical content depending on national 
characteristics and realities in the target language.