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	Pronounced	Usage
Flamur	-	Albanian
Olumide	-	Western African, Yoruba
Edvin	ED-vin (Swedish), ED-veen (Finnish)	Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian
Coley	['kəuli]
Ali (1)	‘ah-LEE: (Arabic)	Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Pashto, Indonesian, Malay
Germanus	-	Ancient Roman