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
Tryphosa	-	Biblical, Biblical Greek, Ancient Greek
Schuyler	SKIE-lər	English
GÁBriel	-	Hungarian
Teresia	te-RE-see-ah	Swedish
Placido	-	Italian
Enver	-	Turkish