The phrase 'familiar grind' is correct and usable in written English.
It refers to a situation or activity that one is accustomed to and is often viewed as tedious or monotonous. For example: Coming back to work after the holidays was a familiar grind.
Leaving London is the familiar grinding misery that gets more profound as you approach Birmingham.
The first FA Cup semi-final in the club's history awaits at Wembley on Saturday, but it is the all too familiar relegation grind against wealthier opposition that captivates Roberto Martínez.
Flacco laments that the season started out on fire only to devolve into a familiar year of grinding it out as offensive players wore down.
In addition to wheat, he said, counting off his products on a dusty hand, he grinds familiar grains like corn, rye and oats, and some unfamiliar ones, like grain sorghum, or milo, and spelt (a kind of wheat).
From the first moments of the new album's opening track, "Hollow," guitars grind a familiar sound of heavy riffs that straddle metal and alternative rock, echoing the Seattle act's time amid the '90s grunge movement.
Soon they are grinding through familiar conflicts over the "old mistakes" that led to the deep freeze in their marriage and the simmering tug of war for the loyalties of their son.
To Chris's great confusion and dismay, he discovers that black solidarity, all hints of the cultural traits that he assumes the man must be familiar with, have been ground out of him.
Hewitt said he considered the scientist a credible source who "did not have an axe to grind" and was familiar with the subject.
The grind should sound familiar to most of us: it's washing the dishes, doing the laundry, or shoveling snow from the driveway.
