The phrase "a jerk of a" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe someone who is unpleasant or rude, often in a derogatory manner.
Example: "I can't believe he treated her that way; he's such a jerk of a boss."
Alternatives: "a real jerk" or "an awful person".
On top of this, she's got a problem more typical of women in their early 20s: a jerk of a boyfriend who dominates her heart, yet gives her nothing but grief.
If a guy with a dodgy moustache offered you, Laura, a testy lesbian with a jerk of a dad, 5,000 kroner to help him elude cops who are investigating a murder conspiracy, thereby exposing you to the risk of prosecution at very least for perverting the course of justice, would you go for it?
I felt like a jerk of a friend for expressing doubt when I should have been saying something much more supportive, but I honestly didn't know what to say.
A jerk of the head, a nod towards the river below, brought an instantaneous change of direction.
"Spitzer -- you get over here," Sharpton barked with a grin and a jerk of his thumb to the state attorney general, Eliot Spitzer, who had mistakenly settled in with the mayoral candidates.
Start the Shadow by beginning a Charge motion (moving your fingers in a scissor-like motion to move the pen between two fingers in an elliptical manner), or by a jerk of the wrist (sideways).
We have the conflicted jerk of a lawman with a haunted past.
"You feel as though you're free, but every now and then something comes up, like you're not allowed to travel with your family without written approval, and it's like the jerk of a leash on a dog".
There's Mark's caustic widow, the surgeon Elizabeth Corday (Alex Kingston); Luka Kovac (Goran Visnjic), a Doug Ross with a meaner, stranger (and frankly, hotter) streak; the cocky intern Pratt (Mekhi Phifer); and Rocket Romano (Paul McCrane), a genuinely arrogant jerk of a surgeon, now one-armed and angrier than ever.
