GASNĄCE FRAZEOLOGIZMY
THE DISAPPEARING PHRASEOLOGISMS

Summary/Abstract: The basic aim of this paper is a general reflection on the disappearance of idioms. The author also makes an attempt to determine the factors which cause their disappearance. There are numerous reasons of this phenomenon. The major factor is the changes occurring in the external world, but the coexisting synonyms and phraseological variants (redundant units) also play a significant role. In the today’s Polish language certain euphemisms or compounds which are too distinctive in terms of semantics have the status of obsolete units. Yet other units function today in the “folded” form – as phraseology-based derivatives.

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