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
Tikhomir	-	Medieval Slavic
Eldred	EL-drəd	English
Toni (1)	TO-nee (Finnish)	Finnish, Croatian
Mario	['mæriəu]
Margaretha	mahr-gah-RE-tah (German)	Dutch, German
KazimÍR	-	Czech, Slovak, Hungarian