Somatisms in phraseological units of english and ukrainian languages

The relevance of the research topic lies in the fact that within the framework of modern linguistic science, the theoretical significance of phraseological units-somatisms, which reflect the characteristics of national consciousness, has not yet been determined, and their place in the linguistic picture of the world has not been studied.
The aim of the research is to identify somatisms as phrase-forming components of phraseological units (PU) of the English and Ukrainian languages, to establish the similarities and differences of somatisms in English and Ukrainian from the point of view of the lexical and semantic features of PU.
The material of the research was 278 PU, identified by the method of continuous sampling from such sources: “Практичний англо-український словник фразеологічних синонімів. A Living English-Ukrainian Dictionary of Phrasal Synonyms” [2] and “Словник фразеологізмів англійської мови” [3].