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
Lacy	LAY-see	English
Parastoo	-	Persian
Debbora	-	Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
Cash	[kæʃ]
Yehoshua	-	Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew
Kobina	-	Western African, Akan