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
Ronnie	RAH-nee	English
Orpheus	AWR-fee-əs (English)	Greek Mythology
Thyra	-	Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Wolfe	[wulf]
Lamis	-	Arabic
Yegor	ye-GOR	Russian