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
Joop	YO:P	Dutch
Hanna (2)	HAH-nah (German), HAN-nah (Danish), HAHN-nah (Finnish)	German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Dutch, Hungarian
Preeti	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati
Cefin	-	Welsh
Rhys	HREES (Welsh), REES (English)	Welsh
Loyd	[lɔid]