The article makes a scientific journey through communication formulae – collocations that have brought benefits and challenges to communication, academic writing and especially to the translation process. The current study explores the linguists’ views on how to define, incorporate and combine terms through a settled fusion following specific rules in a discourse. The approaches proposed in the article reflect the complexity and diversity of phrasemes and namely the essential element - the collocation, which in the process of translation requires lexical advancement, native fluency, clarity, and brevity of the translated idea. More broadly, scientific fields rely on a system of preferential expressions, and collocation is a fundamental mechanism that allows new formulations to occur throughout the text.