The phrase "a thug in a" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are describing someone as a thug in relation to a specific situation or role.
Example: "He walked into the room like a thug in a movie, exuding an air of intimidation."
Alternatives: "a gangster in a" or "a criminal in a".
Twenty-four hours later she is replaying the lead role played by a thug in a green parka.
We have the feeling that we have exchanged an effeminate, aggressive fool for a thug in a leather coat..
In another sequence linked to the falling van, Joseph Gordon-Levitt has a tumbling, weightless fight with a thug in a spinning hotel corridor.
When the Driver gets vicious with a thug in a strip club, glassy-eyed odalisques loll around, bored: hard-boiled is one thing, but such scenes reveal a colder, crueller touch than the film really needs.
"In reality," she said, "his image as a music impresario was a cover for the real Jimmy Rosemond — a thug in a suit" who flooded the streets with cocaine.
A former actress of no note, she was married to the MGM executive Edward J. Mannix, played by Bob Hoskins, perhaps accurately, as a thug in a front-office suit.
Instead Storrar himself has become the focus of remarkably savage coverage, branded a "thug" in Melbourne's Herald Sun and a lousy parent in the Australian.
There's the big, bad boss, Lenny Cole Tom Wilkinsonn), a thug in bespoke pinstripes who comes with an iron fist in a velvet glove called Archy (Mark Strong).
Another is to ensure that the booth, supposedly impervious to prying eyes, is placed under a tree and put a thug in the branches.Yet the power of the caciques, rural or urban, is not what it was.
But these letters show the old-fashioned literary gent (vaguely tickled by praise from Gide and Malraux) who still kept a thug in tow, a kind of inner Beaumont, to make sure that pride or pleasure never got out of hand.
But despite notable footballing roles in Green Street and There's Only One Jimmy Grimble, it was his amateur boxing career that helped him break into acting, as a thug in The Sweeney, after a director noticed his "boxer's walk" at an audition.
