The paper deals with the Croatian and Italian idiomatic phrases containing the somatism eye. The idioms are taken out from the monolingual Croatian and Italian dictionaries and phraseological dictionaries. The research is based on the contrastive analysis of the Croatian and Italian idioms. The aim of the analysis is to group the idioms according to their common semantic features and then, inside the semantic groupings, find the differences in the lexis expressing these common ideas, and thereafter see if these differences in the idiomatic language implicate also some cultural differences. The idiomatic phrases which are entirely equivalent in the two languages will be given less attention in the analysis. The results of the analysis show t...