Attention, paid by modern linguistics to studying multilateral relations between language and culture, made the author think about some Czech idioms, origins of which are not quite clear (e.g. dát / dostat něco do vínku). The word vínek in modern Czech has two meanings – a diminutive to a wreath and a ribbon. Both meanings could influence the semantics of this idiom. To reveal it, the author turned to numerous ethnographic examples and states that the figurative meaning of this expression arose

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... as a result of the formation of the verbal noun vínek, which meant, in fact, a gift, usually money, to a newborn from his godparents.He was not laid under a wreath or ribbon, but wrapped in some kind of blanket. Other expressions that are analyzed in the article, on the contrary, contain well-known words of Slavic languages (for example, hryvnia, Kozak), are a common linguistic heritage of the past, but are implemented differently in phraseological images. The author tries to explain the linguistic-cultural phenomenon of Czech phraseology and paremiology against the background of East Slavic languages.