Cliches in this category are almost the equivalent of asignaturetuneas far as some people are concerned.
From theCambridge English Corpus
They imply something like asignaturetuneor background music which, as a rule, is identified.
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A composer who writes a very popular hit tune as thesignaturetunefor a famous drama series, or even a soap, may expect considerable exploitation of it.
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That is mysignaturetune.
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Training is hissignaturetune.
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She subsequently took the song as hersignaturetune.
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Notable of this and many other shows was the absence of the favouritesignaturetuneover the end credits.
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Has his ownsignaturetune, and a lot of his dialogue is done in rap.
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Minogue considers the track to be hersignaturetuneand is one of her favourite songs to perform live.
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This song quickly became the band'ssignaturetune.
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The latter was more popular and became the group'ssignaturetune.
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The title track became the band'ssignaturetune.
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His scenes of collecting seaweed, called "vraic", from the beaches of the island using a horse and cart were, he said, hissignaturetune.
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The closing theme for 2008 is the same as openingsignaturetune.
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The song would become theirsignaturetune.
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