The current research features phraseological units and the role of myth in the formation of fixed combinations. By positioning  phraseology as a “compendious” myth, the author points out that it  is extremely difficult to interpret these speech units because of the  discursive information hidden in their semantics. It is noted that the  specificity of phraseological units is determined not by formal, but by  content characteristics. The article describes the most effective  ways of translation of phraseological units. The research owes its  topicality to the fact that phraseological units are common in  different genres, which leads to problem of their adequate  translation. The novelty of the article is in the approach to the  phraseological interpretation of units, which are considered in this  paper as agents of a “compendious” myth. The theoretical  significance and practical value are based on the fact that such an  interpretation promotes a deeper understanding and, therefore, an adequate translation of phraseological units into another  language. The research methods are: method of phraseological identification, comparison, analysis, experiment.