The article briefly surveys various types of phraseological units employed as expressive stylistic tools in The Khataks Chronicle (finished in 1724) which is the largest and wholly original part of the voluminous historiographic work Tārīx-i Muraṣṣa‘ compiled by the Pashtun tribal ruler Afżal Xān Xaṯak (d. circa 1740/41). Being the most significant, though still poorly studied collection of the early narrative Pashto prose The Chronicle consists of rather chaotically arranged texts which include genealogies, accounts from tribal history, personal diaries, memoirs and correspondence. Rich phraseological vocabulary of The Chronicle is based on Pashto colloquial communication and folklore as well as on Persian and Arabic literary sources. The phrasemes I examined here range from syntactically open word combinations with partial or full shift of meaning (collocations and idioms) to finished set sayings (aphoristic expressions and proverbs), and strongly differ in figurative motivations and stylistic registers. Th