The article discusses the theoretical and practical problems associated with the lexicographic working out of idiomatic expressions in a special author’s dictionary, in particular, aspects concerning the principles of the phraseological units’ arrangement in the dictionary, idiom description parameters, the content and structure of a dictionaryentry, etc. Some methods to solve these problems are proposed. They were developed in the description of the phraseological lexicon of the native villager of Ivanovo region.
Key words: Russian language, lexicography, phraseography, author's dictionary, phraseological lexicon, language personality, idiom.