The aim of the article is to identify the regularities of the system organization of stable comparisons in the structure of a comparative nest. The system of comparative units is characterized by semantic flexibility, which is provided by the grammatical mobility of the component B, comparison image. This mobility is manifested in grammatical variation of the image (variation of grammatical gender, number, case forms) and of structural-comparative variants of a stable comparison. The author focuses on such grammatical modifications that result in a change in the meaning of a phraseological unit. They allow us to express the subtle nuances of meanings associated with a common «figurative core» in the structure of the comparative nest.
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