V slovare opisano bolee 1400 frazeologicheskikh edinits. Slovarnaya stat"ya delitsya na dve chasti: sobstvenno frazeologicheskuyu i leksicheskuyu. V sobstvenno frazeologicheskoj chasti dayutsya tolkovaniya znachenij, grammaticheskaya i stilisticheskaya kharakteristika frazeologizma, opisyvaetsya ego sintaksicheskaya funktsiya v predlozhenii. V leksicheskoj chasti dany komponenty frazeologizma, sokhranivshie semanticheskuyu svyaz" so slovami svobodnogo upotrebleniya, a takzhe slova-soprovoditeli, privodyatsya ikh znacheniya po tolkovym slovaryam russkogo yazyka s ukazaniem togo slovarya, otkuda oni vzyaty. Prednaznachen ne tol"ko spetsialistam-filologam, no i prepodavatelyam gumanitarnykh vuzov, uchitelyam, perevodchikam, zhurnalistam, pisatelyam, studentam, starshim shkol"nikam. Predstavlyaet interes dlya shirokogo kruga chitatelej.