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
Iris	['airis]
Kaylin	KAY-lin	English (Modern)
Lee	[li:]
Wulan	WOO-lahn	Indonesian, Javanese
&Aelig;Lf&Thorn;Ry&Eth;	-	Anglo-Saxon
Ricardo	ree-KAHR-do (Spanish)	Spanish, Portuguese