The article provides an analysis of Polish and Russian phraseologisms related to the person’s designation by profession. The article discusses phraseological expressions with an invective overtone containing names of professions, or referring to them semantically. The semantic field approach was used for analysis. 7 comparative subcategories were identified as specific, invective semantic fields of specific names of professions. Other subcategories (28) refer to Polish or Russian There are 52 essential meanings hereinafter later called traits, which are connotated by the meaning of the analyzed phraseologisms. These traits create specific semantic micropoles. The analyzed material was also considered in terms of syntactic functions performed by phraseological expressions. The analysis shows the similarities and differences in the studied area of the linguistic worldview of Poles and Russians.
