The phrase "familiar ring" means that something sounds or seems familiar, reminding you of something you have heard or experienced before. Full definition
The president's 2013 budget for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education programs at the Department of Education has a very familiar ring to science educators. (sciencemag.org)
Like much of Colson and Eckerd's book, this discussion bas a familiar ring to it; yet these simple truths are ones with which many of us need to be reacquainted. (firstthings.com)
Yet dispersed among these elaborate literary compositions, or even embedded in them, there are sayings which stand out because they have the familiar ring. (religion-online.org)