Losy związków frazeologicznych z zakresu sztuki jeździeckiej
Fate of phraseological units related to the art of horse-riding

Summary/Abstract: The primary aim of this paper is to determine general rules governing the selection of phraseological material. The analysis of idioms related to the art of horse-riding provided the bases to make a statement that units with obsolete archaic and historical lexis are becoming established in Polish. The status of permanence is also enjoyed by those idioms which have lost cultural motivation and have become prone to reinterpretation. The majority of phraseological units concerned with horse-riding have been forgotten because the surrounding reality has changed. However, explaining the loss of phraseological units with changes in the reality only is insuffi cient. A signifi cant role has been also played by other factors: the loss of metaphorical senses by lexical components of the units or the strong phraseological synonymy/ /variance. Apart from that, the fate of some phraseological units was sealed by an accident.

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