Basisa, Natalia2024-11-272024-11-2720230861-0029https://doi.uni-plovdiv.bg/handle/store/470A connection between gender and language studies exists, as language mirrors social, cultural and gender asymmetries. Hellinger and Bußmann (2015) indicated that language has built a male-centered worldview, while according to the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (Sapir 1929: 211): “the language is not only a product of a society, but also means of formation of its intellection and mentality”. Idioms convey principles of cultures, so they are the main source for gender-linguistic studies. The aim of this paper is to investigate, through corpora and dictionaries, whether idioms bear a sign of gender bias and if the English language has become more neutral.engenderlanguageidiomsculturecorporaArticle