paddle one's own canoe

Be independent and self-reliant, as in It's time Bill learned to paddle his own canoe. This idiom alludes to steering one's own boat. [c. 1800]

Name	Pronounced	Usage
TayyİP	-	Turkish
Sri	-	Indian, Telugu, Tamil, Indonesian
Avila	-	Ancient Germanic
Bohdan	boh-DAHN (Ukrainian)	Czech, Ukrainian
Cecile	['sesil]
Jerald	JER-əld	English