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
But made to do duty as a daub, it is unjustifiable.
From Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 by Various
His friendship with Radicati, a man of liberal opinions, occasioned Frisi’s removal by his clerical superiors to Novara, where he was compelled to do duty as a preacher.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various
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
Round the base of the desk three quaint lions do duty as feet.
From The Care of Books by Clark, John Willis
