This master’s thesis deals with the strategies that the translators implement when translating English idioms into Russian and Slovene. The aim is to compare how Slovene and Russian differ when translating idioms from English, which are the most frequent translation strategies in each language pair, and what are the reasons behind translational non-equivalence. The theoretical part is mostly based on research by R. Moon, S. Fiedler, M. Baker, D. Dobrovol’skij, and P. Newmark. The most common phraseological terminology currently in use is presented and the criteria for the recognition of idioms are clearly set. The problems of idiom translation and translation strategies are also put in focus. The compiled corpora are based on the examples extracted from the novels The Great Gatsby, Of Mice and Men, The Catcher in the Rye and Lord of the Flies and their translations into Russian and Slovene. The study has shown that there are differences between Russian and Slovene translators in how they approach translation of individual idioms, although statistically the distribution of the chosen translation strategies is very similar between the languages.
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