have a familiar ring

Idioms  

1. Sound or seem as though one has already heard of something. For example, That story has a familiar ring; I'm sure I've read it before.

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Example Sentences

For Banaei at Chainalysis, the troubles that Russians are encountering now have a familiar ring to them — his own family left Iran after the Iranian revolution.

From The Verge • Mar. 17, 2022

Those words also have a familiar ring, sounding like a throwback to happier times before the basketball world came to a halt.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2021

Two centuries later those ventures into the dark side, even if largely forgotten, should have a familiar ring.

From Salon • Oct. 17, 2020

If you ever dine around the Chinatown ID, these cuisines all have a familiar ring.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 7, 2019

The name of von Kluck was beginning to have a familiar ring.

From The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Jordan, Charlotte Brewster