PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS IN THE SEMANTIC FIELD OF "CRIME"

Phraseological units are considered as components of semantic field and play a crucial role in verbalizing criminal concepts. They are more powerful in comparison with words to express the cultural features of the national languages and also, they are emotional and stylistically colored units as well. The article discusses the linguacultural peculiarities of the idioms in semantic field of “crime”. The author highlights the etymological roots and phrase semantic meanings of idioms in the article.