English-Danish translations for on the whole

• i det store og hele
  Vi patienter er i det store og hele helt normale mennesker. We patients are quite normal people on the whole.
  Så jeg er i det store og hele enig i hr. Collins indstillinger. So I agree with the Collins' recommendations on the whole.
  Men i det store og hele går 25 % af midlerne til at fremme god regeringsførelse. But, on the whole, 25% of funding is promoting good governance.
• stort set
  Udvalget har stort set gjort et godt stykke arbejde. Our committee has, on the whole, done a good job.
  Glædeligt nok er stort set alle disse ændringer forbedringer. Happily, all these changes are, on the whole, improvements.
  Stort set har jeg, når jeg ikke har befundet mig i den højde, været her i salen. On the whole, when I have not been at that altitude, I have been in this Chamber.

Definition of on the whole

• For the most part; apart from some insignificant details

Examples

• The language was wrong for the period, but, on the whole, I enjoyed the film.

Related words

• Someone who interferes with others
• the one who travels
• there are none so blind as those who will not see
• there are none so deaf as those who cannot hear
• there’s none so deaf as those who will not hear
• there's none so deaf as those who will not hear
• let him who is without sin cast the first stone
• he who is absent is always in the wrong