do duty as
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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
Lieutenant Robertson to do duty as major of brigade, in the room of M. B. Forbes, till further orders.
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
A third has detached from its leather one of his stirrup-irons, and is hanging it on a string to do duty as a triangle.
From Jamaican Song and Story Annancy stories, digging sings, ring tunes, and dancing tunes by Walter Jekyll
A bag of mealie-meal stood in the corner of the tent; I laid this prone so that it might do duty as a table.
From Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer by W. C. (William Charles) Scully
It don’t suit a young fellow who has got to do duty as first mate of his father’s brig and push his way in the world as a seaman.
From Blown to Bits The Lonely Man of Rakata, the Malay Archipelago by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
