Национални стереотипи в българската и унгарската фразеология

This study presents phrasemes with names of nations and ethnonyms in Hungarian and Bulgarian. Idioms with names of nations used to support orientation as they expressed experiences made by meeting, contacting other nations. In the meantime their role has changed, nowadays they are rather used for discrimination, even insult, therefore are not widely applied. Besides the usage of old proverbs and sayings has decreased in everyday language, still less and less language users understand the meaning of them. This study compares names of minorities (Gypsies and Jews) in Hungarian and Bulgarian phraseology. It also handles how the Hungarians and Bulgarians see and let see themselves in phraseology with their own names of nation.