Sentence examples for familiar phrase from inspiring English sources

That gives us the familiar phrase KNEW BY HEART.

The film's message can be summed up in a familiar phrase: You had to be there.

And if that sounds like a familiar phrase, that's because it is.

So, "in the familiar phrase, 'wringing wet,'" he's saying, "I'm about to use a cliché.

This is a neat twist on a familiar phrase, but it hints at a problem.

That familiar phrase, "controlled explosion", seems now to sum up the Rio Olympics.

It's a familiar phrase for anyone with children: "I don't want to do my homework".

His bench and tools are displayed beneath the familiar phrase "Hit the nail on the head".

The agency responded with a now-familiar phrase: It could "neither confirm nor deny" the existence of the effort.

Once again, monetary policy was left – to use the now-familiar phrase – as the only game in town.

Herbert Spencer, an X Club member, summarized Darwin's theory of natural selection with the now-familiar phrase "survival of the fittest".