“Linguo-cultural features of phraseological units with “milk” component”

2. the land of milk and honey -to’kin sochinlik oziq-ovqat va pul ko’p bo’ladigan joy
This phrase is etymologically taken from the Bible story Exodus 3. New International Version (NIV)
Ex: And I have promised to bring you up out of your mistery in Egypt into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—a land flowing with milk and honey.

STRUCTURAL CLASSIFICATION OF PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS (A.I. SMIRNITSKY)

STRUCTURAL-SEMANTIC CLASSIFICATION OF PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS (A.V. Koonin)

phraseological units phraseomatic units mixed cases

Set Expressions

phraseological units have fully or partly transferred meaning (red tape)

phraseomatic units are used in their literal meaning (win a victory)

with borderline cases

Etymological analysis of phraseological units with “milk” component

• Milk of human kindness
• This expression was invented by Shakespeare in Macbeth (1:5), where Lady Macbeth complains that her husband “is too full of the milk of human kindness” to kill his rivals.

Native English phraseological units

• the land of milk and honey -
• This phrase is etymologically taken from the Bible story Exodus 3.17 New International Version (NIV)

Borrowed from the Bible and other literature

• milk-and-water
• This phrase is a translation from the Latin ‘lac et aquae’ which means to be insipid; weak; wishy-washy.

Borrowed from foreign languages

Componential analysis of phraseological units with “milk” component

Macro components of meaning
Denotational
a land of milk and honey-
Gender
milk and water girl
Grammatical
come home with the milk =get home with the milk