What do these construction mean? When can they be used?
She is a peach of a girl.
She is a bitch of a seller.
He is a genius of a man.
Peach of a girl means a sweet girl. Example of usage in sentence - The nurse who treated me is a peach of a girl. ***** of a seller means unethical seller.
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Peach of a girl means a sweet girl. Example of usage in sentence - The nurse who treated me is a peach of a girl.
***** of a seller means unethical seller. Example of usage in sentence - She is that ***** of a seller who tried to sell me a house by concealing many facts.
Genius of a man is straightforward. Means, a man who is a genius. Example of usage - One who invented the Tesla
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This is OK. It is more or less a fixed expression meaning that she is of high quality. The other two are no good. The first noun has to be figurative. A genius of a man is simply a genius, and nobody would put it the other way. A mountain of a man is large. A ***** of a seller is pretty much meaningless, employing slang as it