Contents introduction chapter phraseological units with names of animals and their distinguishing features

2.2. Classifying phraseological units with names of animals in Russian
In Russian there are two types of classification of phraseological units with names of animals. First was offered by Movienko and it is based on characteristics of human. They are divided into three types: Inner characteristics of human; Outer characteristics of human; Social characteristics of human.
Outer characteristics of human
This group is subdivided into the following groups:
1. PU about unattractive woman (ragged cat)
2. PU that show physical state of human (blind hen)


Inner characteristics of human
1. Psychological features
1.1. Perplexity (to look as ram looks at new fences)
1.2. Peculiarities of the reaction (as rats run from the ship, as slowly as a tortilla)
1.3. Resentfully (to take offense as a mouse)
1.4. Boring (to stick like a fly)
1.5. Tearfulness (to howl like a huso)
1.6. Indecisive (Buridan ass)
1.7. Ease (like a fish in the water)
1.8. Taciturnity (to keep silent like a fish)
1.9. Surliness (to look at as a wolf)
1.10 Nonchalance (to live like a heaven bird)
1.11. Inattention (A crow)

2. Moral-ethnical qualities

2.1. Rancor (to play like a cat with a mouse)
2.2. Pride (as Indian cock)
2.3. Craftiness (Snake in the grass)
2.4. General negative evaluation (Dog’s soul)
2.5. Greed (wolf’s appétit)
2.6. Denial of guilt (A cat knows whose meat ate)
2.7. Laziness (Dogs chase)
2.8. Hypocrisy (Wolf in sheep’s clothing)
2.9. Lack of will (Wet hen)
2.10. Swagger (A pig in skullcap)
2.11. Inutility (As milk from the goat)
2.12. Stubbornness (Vaalam ass)
2.13. Losing a way (Lost sheep)
2.14. Cowardice (Frightening crow)
2.15. Inexperience (Yellow-beaked nestling)
2.16. Avarice (To let the goat in the garden)
2.17. Cunning (Colorado beetle)
2.18. Negative qualities (Good goose)
2.19. Poor judgment (Blind hen)
3. Moral-ethnical qualities (positive)
3.1. Activity (Spinning like a squirrel in a wheel)
3.2. Innocuity (Ladybug)
3.3. Infallibility (Milch cow)
3.4. Industry (Draft horse)
3.5. A child with advantages (An ugly duck)
3.6. Moral purity (Innocent sheep)
3.7. An experience (An old bird, an old wolf)
4. Intellectual abilities
4.1. Folly (to lie like a trooper, hedgehog head)
4.2. Mind (book worm)
4.3. Eloquence (to sing like a nightingale)