Место «спортивной фразеологии» в составе общего фразеологического фонда современного русского языка

This paper touches upon the description of the phraseological units which are currently used in the sphere of sports in present-day Russian. Such units have their origin both in sports slang and in mass media language. On the other hand, such units have not only a high level of expressivity but nowadays they are often used as picturesque and metaphoric means in other discourses, e.g. political, social, economic, and in everyday communication. This type of sports idioms now constitutes a special section in the general phraseological base of Russian.