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Abstract
In recent years, a number of studies have been focused on the phraseological units carrying cultural information. Yet, there is no researches on exploration of phraseological units including the names of minerals – stone-metal nominations- in their composition comparing two languages: English and Uzbek. The goal of this study is to investigate what is a phraseological unit in linguistics, how phraseological units are viewed in cultural linguistics and study semantic-thematic group of phraseological units with the component of stone-metal nominations related to human character in the Uzbek and English languages. Moreover, the article reveals symbolic and national-cultural features of phraseological units belonging to the stone and metal nuclear group related to human behavior.