Fuente de la expresión
Oxford Thesaurus of English
Estructura completa
to be (somebody) burly
Contexto
Leo quickly counted heads. Four of them. The one who had called out to him was skinny... unnaturally so. It reminded him of a snitch in his hometown named Ray-Ray who was more interested in buying his next high than he was buying his next meal.
Oh yeah, he thought, this is trouble.
"Anything we can help you with?" the second one asked, this one looking like he had consumed a great deal of the meals the first one had missed. He was burly and tall, easily topping Leo by a head and quite a few kilos. Leo was very sure he thought his size could get him to victory in a fight, and no doubt he was right...most of the time.
The first thing Leo noticed outside of their heights and weights, however, was that although they were speaking to him, they were staring in through the truck windows at Faith.
Fuente del contexto
Forsaken: The World of Nightwalkers
Tipo de fuente
book
Autor
Jacquelyn Frank
Título de la fuente
Forsaken: The World of Nightwalkers
Año
2014
Web
https://books.google.es/books?id=DRwUAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT69&dq=%22he+was+burly%22&hl=es&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiZgrvIqaLxAhWOtqQKHdrfBpgQ6AEwAnoECAsQAg#v=onepage&q=%22he%20was%20burly%22&f=false
Idioma
English
Nivel de uso
Estándar
Marca dialectal
General
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