When that argument failed, he reverted to his familiar complaint about being ruled by London.

The familiar complaint that students don't know their own language, for instance, was common at the end of the 19th century.

It is a familiar complaint, having been leveled against television for years.

He reported a familiar parental complaint which began in the following way:

She listened to familiar parental complaints: no time to themselves, no energy for their children.

Perhaps," I said in response to the familiar complaint, "it is your height.

Seems to be the familiar complaint of Newport husbands," he added.

If the subject of planning came up at all, we heard only echoes of familiar complaints.

As the woman spoke, Hobbes felt a familiar complaint from her inner ear.

Society suffers when children are exposed to so much violence on television and the movies, went the familiar complaint.