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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a familiar tune" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a melody or song that is recognized or known by someone.
Example: "As I walked through the park, I heard a familiar tune playing from a nearby café."
Alternatives: "a well-known melody" or "a recognizable song."
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Yet that is a familiar tune.
A familiar tune was playing, albeit a peculiar rendition of it.
"He started to rock and then he started to whistle" a familiar tune, Mr. Scott recalled.
A familiar tune billows above us, and we are carried along by it for a short distance.
A simple experiment, Herz suggests, shows just how powerful nose amnesia is: think of a familiar tune — say, "Yesterday".
Just as Rigoletto bends over it, a familiar tenor is heard singing a familiar tune offstage — "La donna è mobile".
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No readers will get beyond the fifth page without finding themselves humming a very familiar tune or two.
The idea was ostensibly to use a rousing, familiar tune to reunite Russia's past with its present.
For eight musicians in the pit, it will be a very familiar tune because those eight -- David Gale, Pete Hyde, Brian Koonin, Batia Lieberman, Marion Pinheiro, John Rojak, Mitchell Weiss, and Robert Zottola -- have been with the show since it opened on March 12 , 1987
It's an old familiar tune".
The thing is that the record, in this case, had an oddly familiar tune.
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