by and large

Meaning

1. used when you are saying something that is generally, but not completely, true

   By and large, I enjoyed my time at school.

In the movies · 297

• By and large, it's a story of slow, steady change.David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet2020
• By and large Control your fighter It was a beat down by Kalil Turay who appears to have scoredSouthpaw2015
• ... are controlled by capitalists and large oil companies.Argo2012
• By and large, the analysts admitted to us, in person, 'it's a black box. You have to take it on faith.Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room2005
• A large insect.El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie2019
• A large part.Aladdin and the King of Thieves1996
• ...large fluid sac.Victor Frankenstein2015
• It will only grow largerBlack Panther: Wakanda Forever2022

Learn it in full scenes

• Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room2005
  • Enron's Dabhol Plant in Ruins
  • Fastow Admits Both Sides
  • Skilling Loses It on the Call