The article contains the analysis of the story “My Life” and the play “Uncle Vanya” proving that trite metaphors are a genuine to Chekhov’s language means to express the most important of author’s artistic ideas. The special function of trite metaphors in
Chekhov’s language is combining numerous lexical units of the text into a semantic system. The examples of these units are lexicalized tropes with ultimately trite figurativeness, and the words that obtain a metaphoric meaning inside the author’s textual system.
This fact explains the high density of lexical units impregnated with author’s artistic idea, conditions his precise use of words and brings poetry into Chekhov’s language.