Person embracing prayer, bully typically (2,7)
I believe the answer is:
on average
'typically' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'person embracing prayer bully' is the wordplay.
'person' becomes 'one' ('one' can mean an unspecified person).
'embracing' indicates putting letters inside.
'prayer' becomes 'ave' (as in Ave Maria).
'bully' becomes 'rag' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'ave'+'rag'='averag'
'one' placed around 'averag' is 'ON AVERAGE'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for on average that I've seen before include "Generally" , "Usually" , "typically speaking" .)