do duty
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Having reached Safeway with no fatalities, Stassin and I ordered our respective Loomos to trail us, so that they could do duty as shopping carts.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 19, 2018
Can Chang do duty on The Times' editorial pages?
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2017
Jones' Ospreys back-up Craig Mitchell, James and John Yapp are candidates to do duty on the tight-head of the scrum during the tournament.
From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2011
The two divisions of marines are to do duty with the battalion of grenadiers under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Fisher.
From An Account of the Campaign in the West Indies, in the Year 1794, Under the Command of their Excellencies Lieutenant General Sir Charles Grey, K.B., and Vice Admiral Sir John Jervis, K.B. by Cooper Willyams
It is hard enough to do duty once, but doubly hard when you anticipate mentally everything you have to do to-morrow.
From Think A Book for To-day by Col. Wm. C. Hunter
