The article focuses on the role of the inner form and the components in shaping the structure and values of the German despecialised idioms. The semantic centre of such phraseological units constitute substantive components related to special and everyday communication.

The present paper deals with the combinatorial properties of idioms as one of the issues of constructing the new German-Russian dictionary of idioms based on corpus data. Corpus data analysis makes it possible to find subtle semantic differences between idioms closely related in meaning, to choose equivalents...