The concepts of work and laziness in the Bulgarian linguistic world picture has not yet been subjected to detailed description and analysis, therefore, it was elected to be the object of study. The perception of work and laziness allow to explore the system of social relations and the basic values of the Bulgarian society. The main idea of this work is to describe the implementation of the concepts of work and laziness in Bulgarian collocations, proverbs, idioms and stable expressions, related to labour, in which the keyword is work / job. The material used in this study is obtained from the collections of proverbs, phraseological and monolingual dictionaries, associative polls, conducted among students.
Key words: concept, work / job, laziness, collocations, proverb, associative polls.
