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

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.

A truism must do duty as my first sentence.

From Life of John Keats by Rossetti, William Michael

We can't fetch bricks from the other end, and I draw the line at timber to do duty as bricks.

From Scamping Tricks and Odd Knowledge Occasionally Practised upon Public Works by Newman, John Henry

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