This work is dedicated to the study of the means of phraseological representation of emotive concepts in Russian and English, using the concepts of 'pride', 'shame', 'anger', and 'joy' as examples. The relevance of this study arises from the fact that the research was conducted within the framework of cognitive phraseology, a modern direction in linguistics. It aims to investigate the relationship between linguistic units and cognitive structures of knowledge representation concerning the phraseological conceptualization of the selected emotions.