Phraseology

variants of the English language

• variants of the English language
• - a heavy hitter — 'someone who is powerful and has achieved a lot' (American )
• - be home and hosed — 'to have completed something successfully' (Australian)

other languages (classical and modern)

• other languages (classical and modern)
• second to none — 'equal with any other and better than most' (from Latin: nulli secundus)
• the fair sex — 'women' (from French: le beau sex)

Classification of phraseological units

• Vinogradov /1947; 1964/
• Amosova/1963/
• Arxangelskij /1964/
• Babkin /1964/
• Sanskij /1963/
• Smirnitckij /1956/
• Koonin /1963; 1977/

Phraseological fusions are completely non-motivated word groups such as kick the bucket; tit for tat; to make the bag. The meaning of the components has no connection whatever, at least synchronically, with the meaning of the whole group. Idiomaticity is, as a rule, combined with complete stability of the - lexical components and the grammatical structure of the fusion.

• Phraseological fusions are completely non-motivated word groups such as kick the bucket; tit for tat; to make the bag. The meaning of the components has no connection whatever, at least synchronically, with the meaning of the whole group. Idiomaticity is, as a rule, combined with complete stability of the - lexical components and the grammatical structure of the fusion.

Phraseological unities are particularly non-motivated as their meaning can usually be gathered from the metaphoric meanings of the whole phraseological unit:

• Phraseological unities are particularly non-motivated as their meaning can usually be gathered from the metaphoric meanings of the whole phraseological unit:
• to wash one's dirty linen in public
• to praise to the skies.
• Phraseological units are as a rule marked by a high degree of stability of the lexical components.