Frazeologicheskiy slovar soderzhit frazeologizmy, shiroko ispolzuemye v sovremennom russkom yazyke i vstrechayuschiesya v proizvedeniyah hudozhestvennoy literatury, v periodicheskoy pechati, v razgovornoy rechi. V slovare raskryvayutsya znacheniya frazeologizmov, privodyatsya stilisticheskie harakteristiki, istoricheskie i etimologicheskie spravki. Slovar prednaznachen dlya uchaschihsya starshih klassov, studentov i prepodavateley, a takzhe dlya shirokogo kruga chitateley.