English phraseological units with somatic component

As you know phraseological units of a language reflect people ’s vision of the world around. Somatic component that is connected with the world’s perception, its experience and change, and is associated with life, feelings, physical and mental labour, human character, is very active in phraseological units ’ formation. This component of a phraseological unit belongs to a very frequently used, the oldest and socially important layer of a language. The aim of this article is to represent the way of interpretation of phraseological units, reflecting human’s perception and understanding of the world with the help of the names of human body parts. Native language speakers use such words to describe various fields of their activity including mental activity.