recommend as

recommend (someone or something) as (something)

To give someone or something a recommendation as being ideal in some particular role, function, or ability. I really recommend her as a psychiatrist—she helped me through a really tough period of my life. Would you recommend this hotel as a suitable place to bring kids? It was a bit uncouth of him to recommend himself as the best candidate for the position.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

recommend someone as something

to suggest someone as something. Could you recommend Frank as a good carpenter? I can recommend Jane Smith as a good artist.
See also: recommend
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • recommend
  • recommend (someone or something) as (something)
  • recommend (someone or something) for (something)
  • recommend for
  • charge (something) for (something)
  • charge for
  • tout (someone or something) as
  • tout as
  • pill-peddler
  • pill-roller
References in classic literature
These gentlemen seemed to take it for granted that no coloured man suitable for the position could be secured, and they were expecting the General to recommend a white man for the place.