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- own person, be one's
own person, be one's
own person, be one's
Also, be one's own man or woman . Be independent, be responsible for oneself. For example, We can't tell Jerry what to do-he's his own person. Chaucer used this idiom in Troilus and Cressida: "I am my own woman, well at ease." [Late 1300s]
Common Names:
| Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
|---|
| Taliesin | | tal-ee-ES-in (Welsh) | Welsh, Arthurian Romance |
| Melchior | | MEL-khee-awr (Dutch), MEL-kyawr (English) | Dutch, Judeo-Christian Legend |
| Odo | | - | Ancient Germanic |
| Tonia | | TAHN-yə | English |
| Ichiro | | ee-chee-ṙo: | Japanese |
| Feliks | | fye-LEEKS (Russian), fee-LEEKS (Russian), FE-leeks (Polish) | Russian, Slovene, Polish |