<![CDATA[This study investigates the conceptualization of culturally salient meanings through colour-component zoonymic idioms in English and Uzbek from a comparative linguocultural perspective. It focuses on the interaction between colour symbolism and animal imagery in the phraseological representation of human character, emotional states, social relations, rarity, conflict, deception, and culturally significant values.The analysis is based on English and Uzbek phraseological units in which colour and zoonymic components contribute to the formation of figurative meaning. Particular attention is given to such cross-linguistically relevant units as black swan – oq qarg‘a, sariq ilonning yog‘ini yalagan – a snake in the grass, like a red rag to a bull – jahl otiga minmoq, as well as culturally specific expressions including white elephant, seeing pink elephants, white dove / oq kabutar, and the Turkic symbolic images oq bo‘ri and ko‘k bo‘ri. The study employs descriptive, componential-semantic, comparative, conceptual, and linguocultural methods to identify the semantic motivation of colour components, the symbolic functions of animal images, and the cultural mechanisms underlying idiom formation. The findings indicate that comparable concepts may be verbalized through substantially different colour-animal configurations in the two languages. While certain units demonstrate functional-semantic correspondence, others reveal partial or complete idiomatic lacunarity. The analysis further shows that the symbolic interpretation of colour and animal components is conditioned by historical experience, traditional lifestyle, mythology, religious beliefs, and culturally established value systems. The study concludes that universality in colour-component zoonymic idioms is primarily manifested at the conceptual-semantic level, whereas national specificity emerges through figurative imagery, symbolic motivation, and culturally conventionalized models of conceptualization.]]>
