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

Upstairs Marie the maid was unpacking endless boxes of clothes, and hanging them up in a spare room fitted to do duty as an immense wardrobe.

From Lady Cassandra by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

This drum had to do duty as cooking-pot.

From Through Shot and Flame The Adventures and Experiences of J. D. Kestell Chaplain to President Steyn and General Christian De Wet by Kestell, J. D. (John Daniel)

Round the base of the desk three quaint lions do duty as feet.

From The Care of Books by Clark, John Willis

As all the regular railway employ�s had fled with the departing Boers, it became necessary to call for volunteers from among the soldiers to do duty as drivers, stokers and guards.

From With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back by Lowry, Edward P.