Abstract

The aim of the article is to compare two practices of lexicographic description of idioms: British and American. Modern and authority American and British dictionaries of idioms become the focus of interest. The subject matter is an entry, and the object of study is its significative and denotative, connotative and additional components. The study reveals merits and otherwise, perspectives of the compared lexicographic practices.

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