English Idioms and Idiomatic Expressions
Lists of idioms used in everyday conversational English, with their meaning.
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Created
14 January 2017 — measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (TGDataset)
Education — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-UD-Q6_K_XL, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 8 August 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 100% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
Growth
9 measurements spanning 7 days, net -66. Dots are measurements; the straight line between them is drawn to join them, not to claim we know the path taken in between — snapshots are recorded only when a count changes, so gaps mean “no change observed”, never “interpolated”. The vertical axis spans 169,604–169,691 and does not start at zero.
Measurement log — every subscribers count we have recorded
Measured (UTC)
Subscribers
Change
12 Aug 2026, 14:15
169,614
-17
11 Aug 2026, 14:34
169,631
-13
10 Aug 2026, 11:01
169,644
-33
9 Aug 2026, 11:31
169,677
+5
8 Aug 2026, 09:06
169,672
-9
7 Aug 2026, 08:08
169,681
+8
6 Aug 2026, 10:10
169,673
-7
6 Aug 2026, 01:31
169,680
no change
5 Aug 2026, 23:18
169,680
first reading
Engagement
8 posts held, back to 19 August 2025 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 17 pagesof Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 8 posts for this entry, the most recent from 5 July 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
What this channel posts
Photos
≈2,180
Videos
≈1,820
Links
≈278
Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 12 August 2026 — not the date at the top of this page, which is when the subscriber count was last read. A count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints these counters in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈142,000 means somewhere between 141,500 and 142,499.
Reaction mix
1,721 reactions across 8 posts, in 22 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 70.5% of them.
Every reaction kind recorded on the sample, most used first
Reaction
Count
Share
Share, drawn
❤
1,214
70.5%
👍
252
14.6%
🔥
45
2.61%
🥰
44
2.56%
👏
25
1.45%
🤯
25
1.45%
👌
24
1.39%
🐳
16
0.93%
🖕
9
0.523%
🤩
9
0.523%
⚡
8
0.465%
👎
8
0.465%
🤡
8
0.465%
🆒
7
0.407%
💘
5
0.291%
🕊
5
0.291%
😁
4
0.232%
❤🔥
3
0.174%
😍
3
0.174%
😢
3
0.174%
2 further kinds
4
0.232%
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 8 of the 8 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 1,721reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 8 most recent posts we hold, published 19 August 2025 to 5 July 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
To walk on eggshells means to behave in a very cautious or careful manner to avoid upsetting someone; to be careful what you do or say around someone because they are quite sensitive, easily angered, or offended; to be careful in handling very serious or volatile matters.
If you have to “walk on eggshells” around someone, it may be because they have a chip on their shoulder.
Sentence Examples
“I’m tired of walking…
📔dig your heels in
📋Meaning
to refuse to change your plans or ideas, especially when someone is trying to persuade you to do so.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 Even though the developer offered them more than their houses were worth, the owners dug their heels in and refused to sell up and make way for the office block.
🗣When their record company told the band to change their style and make more commercial music, the band…
📔 ahead of the game
📋Meaning
doing well in a situation and making progress.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 I’m always taking training courses so that I can get ahead of the game.
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📔 break the ice
📋Meaning
To do or say something to make people more relaxed in a social situation and get people talking to each other (e.g., party, business meeting, conference, first day of class).
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 At the conference will have several activities to help people break the ice.
🗣 It’s always easiest to break the ice with a few drinks.
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📔 make someone sick
📋Meaning
to make someone appalled, shocked or disgusted.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 I can’t believe you ate that entire bucket of fried chicken—you make me sick.
🗣 Listening to my sister talk to her boyfriend in her whiny baby voice makes me so sick.
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Showing the 8 most recent of 8 posts we hold for @Idiomsland. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Citation-graph rank
Citation-graph rank — 7,834 of 1,151,006entries in the measured graph. A weighted position computed from the forward and mention edges below — republished posts weigh more than named mentions — and recomputed periodically, over the whole graph. Published only as this ordinal position, never as a score: a position is a fact, and a score printed beside one channel’s name would read as a verdict this register does not make. The two counts beneath stay separate for the same reason mentions are never summed with forwards anywhere else on this page — a named-by count costs nothing to manufacture. The top 100 by this measure, or how it is computed.
Forward network
Republished by
Channels on the register that have forwarded this channel's posts into their own feed.
Built only from forwarded posts we have actually read, on both sides. Coverage is early and deliberately incomplete: a missing link means we have not read the post that would prove it, never that the relationship does not exist. Counts are distinct forwarded posts observed, so they only ever go up as we read more.
Mentions
Named by 18 registered channels — every channel on the register whose own posts have named this one, by its current username or any other username it currently holds, merged from two separately captured readings of the same fact so a namer caught by only one of them is not missed and a namer both caught is not counted twice. A username this channel has since dropped is not matched — that handle may belong to someone else now, and crediting today’s namer to yesterday’s owner would misattribute it.
Named by
Channels on the register whose posts name this channel's handle.
A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.
Channels Telegram recommends alongside this one
Telegram’s own answer, not this register’s.When this register asks Telegram’s API what is similar to this channel, this is the list it returns, in the exact order Telegram returns it — never re-sorted by subscribers or by anything else this register measures. The relationship, and the order, are Telegram’s; we record them and date them, and make no claim of our own about which of these channels actually resemble this one.
Read from Telegram’s recommendation API, most recently 12 August 2026. Telegram holds a list like this for a small and growing share of the register — how this is measured, and why most channel pages show nothing here.
Appears in Telegram’s recommendations for other channels
The reverse of the list above, and a different kind of signal. This does not require this channel to have ever been asked about directly — each row below is a channel we DID ask Telegram about, whose Telegram-generated list happened to include this one. A channel can appear here with an empty list above it, because being named by someone else’s query is independent of having been queried itself.
English @English_IBPS_PO_Clerk_SSC_CGL_GK · 184,848 Telegram ranks this channel #24 of 83 here — alongside 82 others — read 11 August 2026
English Grammar IELTS TOEFL @English_Grammar_IELTS_TOEFL · 281,067 Telegram ranks this channel #26 of 90 here — alongside 89 others — read 10 August 2026
English vocabulary Grammar IELTS TOEFL ™️ @English_IELTS_TOEFL_Vocabulary · 172,385 Telegram ranks this channel #38 of 72 here — alongside 71 others — read 12 August 2026
English Books Magazines Novels @Novels_English_Books_Magazines · 218,257 Telegram ranks this channel #46 of 72 here — alongside 71 others — read 12 August 2026
Maths for SSC Railway Exams @Maths_SSC_CHSL_CGL_IBPS_GK_Clerk · 203,283 Telegram ranks this channel #57 of 67 here — alongside 66 others — read 11 August 2026
English Grammar SSC Banking Vocabulary Quiz @English_Grammar_Ssc_Banking · 153,489 Telegram ranks this channel #63 of 88 here — alongside 87 others — read 12 August 2026
This channel appears in 6 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists in total. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.
Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 12 August 2026 — this
entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Learn English Idioms Language” (@Idiomsland), 169,614 subscribers as measured 12 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/Idiomsland.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.
