In this study our primary interest is to explore the cultural-cognitve elements of metaphors dealing with colours. Proverbs, phrases and metaphors are perceived as an adjustment of cognitive and linguistic patterns to the needs of communication. Recent research in psycholinguistics shows that the meaning of many idioms are motivated by people's conceptual knowledge, which includes metaphorical schemes of thought. Like idiomatic phrases, proverbs give significant insights into the poetics of mind because they reflect how our metaphorical conceptualization of experience bears on particular social situations. Metaphoric language has its preference regarding colours. Mainly basic, focal colour terms are used in metaphors; some colours are used more frequently than others. Black, white and red are the most frequent having the largest map of experience. In conclusion, metaphoric language gives us insight into the structure of human mind.
