The phrase "a thorough guy" can be used in written English.
It means someone who is careful and thorough in their work and/or research. For example, "John is such a thorough guy - he always double-checks all his work before submitting it."
Mr. Tedder is America's anthem guy: a thorough student of the midtempo Britpop arena-rock processional, emulating the music of U2, Peter Gabriel and Coldplay while substituting melodramatic endearments for their literary ambitions.
We were keen to take a tour of the old city, and so the hotel helped to arrange a guide, Mustafa, an extremely friendly guy with a thorough knowledge of Marrakech.
Plus this guy did a thorough analysis here.
Provide a thorough explanation about who this guy is and also describe what you know about his parents and his family life.
In less than a second, I'll conduct a thorough investigation to determine who the good guys are and who the bad guys are, in the midst of an extremely chaotic incident.
He's one of those guys who is a thorough reprobate and spends his time with other reprobates but has huge charisma.
Mr. Jarvi received a thorough training in the "dead white guys" tradition himself, first at the Manhattan School of Music in New York, where he studied piano intensively, and later at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where he was enticed into conducting when composer-friends who needed someone to conduct their new pieces tapped the willing but inexperienced Mr. Jarvi.
Checketts, their top executive, is a basketball guy who said he would conduct a thorough search for Smith's replacement.
Brazile recently met with Bush yet, and characterizes him as a "nice guy" who maybe hasn't done a thorough self-reckoning yet.
The guys at Rockstar gave us (well, me) a thorough overview of the Nintendo DS game inside a delivery van on the show floor.
