Subject of investigation is the name of the colour. Task of investigation: to disclose refinements of using the colour names, the meaning added by colour to collocation of phraseological units and function of the colour in the phraseological units and collocations by comparing Russian and Lithuanian collocations and phraseological units having colour name in their composition. In order to perform the task, 80 prhaseological units in Russian, 135 in Lithuanian and 200 collocations in the both languages were collected. In the practical part we analysed usage of the colour names found in the phraseological units and collocations, established the meaning and connotation granted by colour meaning in a word combination. Phraseological units were allocated into the following four groups: 1. Phraseological units, similar in their meanings and component compositions; 2. Phraseological units, similar in their meanings but differing in component compositions; 3. Phraseological units, different in their meanings but similar with component compositions; 4. Phraseological units, different in their meanings and component compositions. Collocations were allocated as follows: 1. Collocations with the meaning, describing human feelings; 2. Collocations, describing life realities; 3. Collocations, describing appearance of a person; 4. Collocations, describing nature; 5. Collocations, describing historical past or today’s topicalities; 6. The rest collocations (specific to a single language... [to full text]