Abstract

In the present article the author analyzes English and Uzbek phraseological units which describe different human emotions such as delight, anger, worry, fear, etc. These emotions, which are transferred in the semantics of phraseologisms are classified into positive and negative types. Theoretical part of the article is proved by numerous examples. These examples are selected from A.V. Kunin’s English-Russian phraseological dictionary, M. Sadikova’s Uzbek-Russian phraseological dictionary and from Russian literary works.