Metaphor (or its manifestations) is a significant feature forming the typology of the language. If to recognize as determining: the topic-prominent nature of the Chinese language and the subject-prominent of Russian (according to Li&Thompson), the agreement between the predicated and predicating components in the Russian sentence entails the constant imitation of the “actor” and “action” as a banal metaphor. Such metaphor have been mentioned by some authors, but always outside the typological context and without much attention. In unmarked speech a banal metaphor is impossible in Chinese, while everyday Russian speech does not exist without it. In addition, the copula-sentences in Chinese do not correspond to “European”ones, and the copula是/係 shì / xì - hai cannot be a verb (with the banal metaphoric idea of “to be..” / “to exist…”).