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The article is concerned with phraseological units in the adjectival function (e.g. caly i zdrowy ‘alive and well’, pierwszy lepszy ‘just any’, jaki taki ‘passable, good enough’, starej daty ‘old-school, outdated’, calą gebą ‘through and through’). Attention is also paid to the units that are used both adjectivally and adverbially (e.g. na medal ‘firstclass’, pod adresem ‘at the address’, do bialego rana ‘till dawn’, na czarną godzine ‘for a rainy day’, pi razy oko ‘more or less’). They are analyzed with regard to their internal structure, i.e. relationships between their components, as well as their syntactic behaviour in relation to the rest of the utterance. Internally, both groups of expressions are very diverse. With respect to their function, they can be: – attributive, i.e. standing in relation the noun only: od siedmiu boleści ‘mediocre, pathetic’, spod ciemnej gwiazdy ‘of the deepest dye’, świezo upieczony ‘new and inexperienced’, z krwi i kości ‘full bloodied’, czystej wody ‘of the first order’; – attributive or complementary (i.e. standing in relation to the noun or the copula), e.g. pod psem ‘rotten; under the weather’, caly w skowronkach ‘happy as a lark’, w czepku urodzony ‘born with a silver spoon in one’s mouth’, nadgryziony zebem czasu ‘time-worn’, zamkniety na cztery spusty ‘locked and bolted’. The latter category can also be used in apposition, as attributive complements, or in relation to the verb.