title: Cyrillic Alphabet Idioms: A Diachronic Perspective
abstract: The paper is devoted to the consideration of Russian idioms containing names of Cyrillic letters viewed in a perspective of their functioning dynamics. The empirical basis of the study was the lexicographic material of explanatory and phraseological dictionaries, data from the national corpus of the Russian language, as well as a collection of examples of the use of the phraseological units in the texts of students’ essays and in the oral media discourse. The research was carried out using metho
journal: Lomonosov Journal of Philology