Structural and semantic features of phraseological units with the component "Animals" in Russian language

The article presents the results of the study of phraseological units with the component «animals» included in the phraseological dictionaries of the Russian language. The goal of the article is to consider the structural and semantic features of these phraseological units. The conclusions give an idea of the frequency of phraseological units with the component-zoonym in the Russian language, their phrase-forming potential and their place in the Russian language picture of the world.