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
Hevel	-	Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew
Asbury	['æzbəri]
Laws	[lɔ:z]
Singh	-	Indian (Sikh)
Busby	['hʌzbi]
Tesni	-	Welsh