The phrase "a thug of a" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe someone in a derogatory manner, implying that they possess qualities associated with a thug, such as aggression or criminal behavior.
Example: "He was a thug of a man, intimidating everyone in the room with his presence."
Alternatives: "a brute of a" or "a lout of a".
Shorten said Abbott was "a thug of a fellow" for threatening to remove the money if Victorians chose Labor on Saturday.
We haven't won since before Grandpa's time, Timmy my boy, when we let Babe Ruth go yes, he was ours, a thug of a lefty pitcher then, and he got away.
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It is difficult to accept that a thug of an al-Shabab operative brought the life of this most interesting man to an end in such a violent, hideous and public manner.
Stan Bruiser, the mayor, is a thug of the first order, with "a scarred face set like concrete, sweat running down from his hairy skull over his lumpy forehead and onto his exposed brown teeth," which he tends to bare "like those of a savage dog".
She struggles to read him: is he the uncomplicated thug of a mullah state or simply a man in a job, with doubts about the regime he represents?
His character's name is Barry, and if that suggests a certain dim-the-lights soul singer, it's no accident; this is a jailhouse thug of a decidedly different sort.
Mr. Voight is well suited to the part of Mickey, a thug with a perpetual air of menace beneath the blarney.
The image of a thug taking a dead man's wedding ring, evoked with dignity and disgust by Dutch foreign minister Frans Timmermans in a speech to the UN Security Council, is a powerful one.
Sonny was just seen as a thug and a tool of the mob, and that reputation never quite left him.
Unfortunately, Baker's liberal use of other voices — including those of a reporter, a thug, and a fireman — ultimately proves distracting.
