The relevance of the problem under study is due to the multicultural situation in the modern society, as well as the need in understanding between peoples. The object of the study is to analyze the factors that cause the development of phraseological units with the component of color in English, Spanish, Portuguese and Russian. The methods used in the work include the descriptive-comparative methods, as well as the method of analysis. The results of the article allow to see the zero equivalence of phraseological units with this or that color component and to understand the reasons of it. The materials of the work can be useful for the further comparative, typological, linguistic-cultural and ethnic-linguistic studies of the other languages, for making of various phraseological dictionaries of color terms, etc.

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