In every language we come across related words whose meaning is not the sum oft he meanings od the components, that is, whose meaning is not eqal to their literal translation. Such connections are called idioms. The subject of research int his paper are idioms that hace a name for a part oft he body – somatic idioms, which make up one oft he more numerous groups of idioms. We analyzed the phrases that have the somatic component: head, tongue, face, brain, nose, eye, ear and mouth. After the questionnaire for phraseological research was compiled, we conducted a research int he local dialect of Strizivojna and asked for confirmations from three informants for phrases compiled in the Qestionnaire. For the same phrases, we sought confirmation in three praseologival dialectological dictionaries and foreign dictionaries – Englisch and German, in order to obtain confirmation whether these phrases are regionalisms, localisms or internationalisms. Some phrases are confirmed as internationalisms, some as regionalisms and some only as localisms.