The phrase "a doll of a" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe someone or something as charming, delightful, or attractive, often in an endearing way.
Example: "She is a doll of a friend, always there to support me and make me smile."
Alternatives: "a gem of a" or "a sweetheart of a".
Adamantina meets an old woman who has in her lap a doll, of a kind manufactured in Marghera and Mestre and known as a poavala.
Coates soon starts making my daughter feel sick when she takes out a doll of a newborn, which we christen Scary Baby.
Written and directed by Anna Biller, who also stars as the title character -- a doll of a 1972 housewife first known as Barbi -- the film unwinds as a series of adventures that take Barbi from swinging suburbia and backyard bacchanalias into the city and depravity.
Driven mad by the death of her only son many years earlier, the Landlady carries a doll of a baby boy with her at all times.
I don't know about you, but I would LOVE a doll of a character of a former slave turned bounty hunter who returns to the South to successfully bring revenge to slave masters and save his wife.
And the brother of one of the girls wanted a doll of his own, a boy.
Then she moved on to a doll of Enid, a character from the comic book series "Ghost World".
When she was a teenager, Wilson had a doll of Lucas.
On 11 September a man wearing a Pokemon shirt and hat, and carrying a doll of Pikachu, a Pokemon character, jumped the fence and was arrested at gunpoint.
Titled "Barbie", it begins: "I made a doll of plasticine / and spit; a witless, / empty-headed thing".
Barbie is a doll, of course, a piece of plastic, a parody of human physique or a model of physical perfection depending on your perspective, and she is coveted by many young (and some older) females, mostly.
