Ordinarily, flipping Luxembourg and Austria mostly backslide, 'neutral; independent' (2,7)
I believe the answer is:
in general
'ordinarily' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'flipping luxembourg and austria mostly backslide neutral independent' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'luxembourg' could be 'l' (international vehicle registration code) and 'l' is found within the answer.
'and' could be 'n' (common abbreviation for 'and') and 'n' is located in the answer.
'austria' could be 'a' and 'a' is found in the answer.
'neutral' could be 'n' (abbreviation in electronics) and 'n' is located in the answer.
'independent' could be 'i' and 'i' is located in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for in general that I've seen before include "Mostly" , "Not particularly" , "More-or-less" , "Usually; mainly" , "for the most part" .)