These ideas, familiar to all good teachers of English, are so important they bear constant repetition.

It's a familiar idea; I just didn't recognize the term.

How, then, did such familiar ideas come about?

It startled the ignorant by being an old and familiar idea they never thought to have seen revived.

A familiar enough idea by now, when we find it in Nietzsche or Freud.

For an instant I toyed with the idea, so familiar by then, of running to my car and driving away.

This is a familiar idea in the New Testament.

In each case, scale and automation give a familiar idea new effects.

Slight alterations push the familiar ideas forward, giving them a fluid motion.