PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS WITH A MEANING OF " HUMAN INTELLECTUAL ABILITIES" IN RUSSIAN AND ENGLISH LANGUAGES
In this article we consider Russian and English idioms, characterizing human mental abilities. Mind and intellectual abilities are those inner qualities by which a human can be appreciated. It's phraseological units that contain an assessment of mental actions and status of the subject. The article attempts to describe and organize, find out the similarities and differences of the images in phraseological units of Russian and English languages. The study of phraseological units with a meaning of "intellectual abilities" in both languages enables us to find out and compare national representation of a person - bearer of knowledge, his mental actions and states.