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
Antigone	an-TIG-ə-nee (English)	Greek Mythology
Raziela	-	Hebrew
Veerke	VI:R-kə	Dutch, Limburgish
Dietfried	DEET-freet	German
Skender	-	Albanian
Purnama	poor-NAH-mah	Indonesian