It's a familiar complaint, to have a tune you can't get out of your head.

Angry water consumers blamed the shortages on a familiar complaint - the problem of burst pipes.

Of late, that has been a familiar complaint from young academic colleagues who, to trumpet their worth, imagine a gap in the scholarship and then pretend to fill it.

Too many of the bad anecdotes suggest nothing new or sinister but the familiar complaint of brisk, formulaic and careless nursing.

Now that sounds a familiar complaint.