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"Making dictionaries requires making choices" (FILLMORE/ATKINS 1994: 350). From the point of view of an average user the frequency of use of particular lexemes should be a vital criterion in the compilation of entries in bilingual dictionaries. This also pertains to phraseologisms. The aim of the paper is to determine to what extent the phraseologisms belonging to the phraseological minimum / optimum were taken into consideration and described in two popular German-Polish dictionaries: "Kieszonkowy Słownik Langenscheidt" [Langenscheidt Pocket Dictionary] edited by Stanisław Walewski and "Duży Słownik PONS" [PONS Comprehensive Dictionary].