Idioms with animal names for the meaning of the role functions of the participants of the business processes

The article deals with the English business idiomatic expressions including animal names. There is given the analysis of these idioms for the characteristics of the role functions of the participants of the business processes. The comparison of the animal world and the business world in the studied business idiomatic expressions is clearly examined that points up the studied texts and allows to get a full picture of the described situation since the reliance on the reader’s background knowledge appears.