This article presents a comparative-typological analysis of phraseological units with antonymic components in English, Uzbek, and Russian. It examines the role of antonymy within phraseological units, their structural and semantic features, and the ways in which they manifest across the three languages. Based on their structure, such units are classified into paired, negative, alternative, and predicative types. The analysis covers units such as ups and downs, black and white, oq-qora, past-baland, рано или поздно, and и стар и млад. The results show that antonymic components are an important means of forming the holistic meaning of a phraseological unit in all three languages, yet differences exist in formation models, degree of semantic shift, and national-cultural specificity. The article also addresses the problems of translating these units and of finding their equivalents and analogues. The findings can be used in compiling dictionaries, developing teaching materials, and in translation practice.
English
Russian
Uzbek
antonymic component
antonymy
comparative linguistics
equivalence
phraseological unit
semantics
translation