do (someone) a service
idiom
: to do something that helps (someone)
The journalists did the public a service by exposing the corruption.
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The Court would do a service to the country, and America’s principle of equality under the law, by telling them their time is up.
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The Editorial Board, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2022
Pelosi, by making this trip against the background of Chinese threats, would do a service to her country, Taiwan, and all nations with an interest in resisting a totalitarian party-state’s military aggression.
—The Editors, National Review, 27 July 2022
Agents, like most other workers, get paid when someone hires them to do a service, such as finding a buyer for their house.
—Cindy Krischer Goodman, sun-sentinel.com, 9 Aug. 2021
The Editorial Board, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2022
Pelosi, by making this trip against the background of Chinese threats, would do a service to her country, Taiwan, and all nations with an interest in resisting a totalitarian party-state’s military aggression.
—The Editors, National Review, 27 July 2022
Agents, like most other workers, get paid when someone hires them to do a service, such as finding a buyer for their house.
—Cindy Krischer Goodman, sun-sentinel.com, 9 Aug. 2021
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