stand in for

Kemi Badenoch chose not to appoint a deputy when she assembled her frontbench team, so it wasn’t clear who would stand in for her.

Casting back on their memories of first seeing the film, Bullock recalled a viewing during postproduction and being struck by the use of storyboard drawings to stand in for unfinished shots — and did not realize that that was not how it would actually look in the final movie.

She said she has also emailed and offered her services as a Nessa stand in for the show - but hasn't heard back yet.

A diorama of a pride of lions can stand in for a hunt, or for a hierarchy, reinforcing the idea of the lion king.

Frank even gave the couple their own in-house tiki bar to stand in for Tiki-Ti.