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
The necessary changes in matters of history having been made, his volume might do duty as the biographical memoir of thousands of her contemporaries.
From Pot-Boilers by Bell, Clive
In that plight they might be seen some years ago, may still possibly be seen—empty, dusty, dreary—ranged above ground-floor premises which do duty as a parcels' conveyance office, and abutting on a mean, ill-kept yard.
From Stories of Authors, British and American by Chubb, Edwin Watts
"I suggest that the past officers take the places of the second, third, and fourth lieutenants, who shall do duty as seamen," said Leavitt, the second officer.
From Down the Rhine Young America in Germany by Optic, Oliver
He had come out of the hospital to do duty as a guide.
From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1 by Various
