The article looks at the phraseological units in Bulgarian through the prism of cultural significance. In this type of analysis the author bases her research on V.N. Tellier. She analyses Russian idioms and on this basis she synthesizes cultural information, trying to come up with her own method of analysis of set phrases and use it for Bulgarian language. The method is represented by the analysis of set phrases with tokens "forest tree".
Key words: phraseology, cultural code,linguistic cultural studies, phraseologism

