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| Russian | English |
| вообще говоря | generally speaking |
| вообще говоря | as a matter of fact |
| вообще и т.д. говоря... | generally objectively, practically, etc. speaking... |
| вообще говоря | by and large |
| вообще и т.д. говоря... | broadly objectively, practically, etc. speaking... |
| вообще говоря | basically (Вообще говоря, история этого предлога не из ясных (Basically, the history of this preposition is not what you'd call clear. (Michele Berdy).20) |
| вообще говоря | actually (mascot) |
| вообще говоря | far and by |
| говорить вообще | speak in generalities |
| говорить вообще не приходиться | be not even in the equation (As he saw it, humility was not even in the equation and Iverson was far from humble. | When the project for Robohand started out, children or other people were not even in the equation. Alexander Demidov) |
| говоря вообще | speaking generally |
| говоря вообще | generally speaking |
| зачем вы вообще об этом говорили? | why did you speak about it in the first place? |