15 Feb 2024, 06:01 UTC83 viewsread 10 August 2026
kick the bucket-If someone kicks the bucket, they die.
Channel
IdiomOfTheDay
@idiom_of_the_day
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · Posts · Citations · Cite this entry
39subscribers
-1 since we began measuring on 9 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001069747135 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @idiom_of_the_day |
| Created | Between 1 July 2016 and 30 April 2017 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 10 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 4 October 2026 |
| Measurements held | 3 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 4 October 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/idiom_of_the_day |
Topic
Education — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 4 October 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
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 4 Oct 2026, 09:20 | 39 | -1 |
| 10 Aug 2026, 19:31 | 40 | no change |
| 9 Aug 2026, 06:45 | 40 | first reading |
Engagement
20 posts held, back to 23 January 2024 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of 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 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 15 February 2024. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Recent posts
14 Feb 2024, 06:00 UTC83 viewsread 10 August 2026
now and then | now and again-If you do something now and then, or now and again, you do it occasionally.
13 Feb 2024, 06:01 UTC83 viewsread 10 August 2026
so far, so good-You can say "so far, so good" when you're in the middle of doing something, and everything has been going well.
12 Feb 2024, 06:01 UTC83 viewsread 10 August 2026
skate on thin ice-If you're skating on thin ice, you're doing something risky, or you're in a situation that could quickly become dangerous.
11 Feb 2024, 06:01 UTC79 viewsread 10 August 2026
cross that bridge when we come to it-You can say "we'll cross that bridge when we come to it" if someone mentions a problem that might occur in the future, but you want them to think about what's happening now instead.
9 Feb 2024, 06:01 UTC68 viewsread 10 August 2026
under the table-If something is done under the table, it's done secretly, usually because it's illegal or unethical.
8 Feb 2024, 06:00 UTC60 viewsread 10 August 2026
(like) water off a duck's back-You can say an insult or criticism is like water off a duck's back if it doesn't upset you.
7 Feb 2024, 06:00 UTC56 viewsread 10 August 2026
up in the air-If something such as a plan to do something, or details of an agreement, are up in the air, they still haven't been decided or settled yet.
6 Feb 2024, 06:00 UTC56 viewsread 10 August 2026
zero tolerance-If something is given zero tolerance, it won't be accepted even once.
5 Feb 2024, 06:01 UTC55 viewsread 10 August 2026
off the cuff-If you speak off the cuff, you speak without planning what you will say beforehand.
4 Feb 2024, 06:00 UTC54 viewsread 10 August 2026
with flying colours | colors-If you pass a test with flying colours, you pass it easily and get high marks.
3 Feb 2024, 06:00 UTC57 viewsread 10 August 2026
ring a bell-If something rings a bell, it sounds familiar or you think you've heard it before.
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @idiom_of_the_day. 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.
Mentions
Named by 1 registered channel — 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.
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 4 October 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“IdiomOfTheDay” (@idiom_of_the_day), 39 subscribers as measured 4 October 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/idiom_of_the_day.
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.