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
Selig	-	Yiddish
Carola	kah-RO-lah (German)	Italian, German, Dutch, Swedish
Thankful	THANGK-fəl	English (Archaic)
Gu&Eth;Leif	-	Ancient Scandinavian
Marcial	-	Spanish
Niklas	NIK-lahs (Swedish), NEEK-lahs (Finnish)	Swedish, Finnish, Danish, Norwegian, German