Colour idioms in linguocultural comprehension of implicit meaning in the English and Azerbaijani languages

Abstract The article deals with the comprehension of colour idioms in English and Azerbaijani in the linguacultural world. Above all, the paper covers the definition of idioms and various approaches by prominent English and Azerbaijani linguists; presents classification of idioms namely, semantically and structurally. Furthermore, syntactical study of constituents comprising colour idioms is being considered in the compared languages. This article also discusses the implicit nature of colour idioms in English and Azerbaijani. As the title of the paper suggests, the term “implicit meaning” – the meaning that may not be obvious for the speakers of foreign languages - is also being considered in the article. The research work mainly analyses common colour idioms found in the English and Azerbaijani languages. The collected data are being studied on two aspects: analysis of colour idioms that coincides structurally and semantically both in English and Azerbaijani, as well as analysis of colour idioms that do not have semantic or structural equivalents in the compared languages.