under one's own steam

Independently, without help, as in For two years I published the quarterly newsletter under my own steam. This expression uses steam in the sense of "driving power," as in a steam engine. [Early 1900s]

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Karolina	kah-raw-LEE-nah (Polish), kah-ro-LEE-nah (Swedish, German)	Polish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Hungarian, Slovene, Croatian, Macedonian, Lithuanian, German
Jannike	YAHN-ni-ke (Swedish)	Norwegian, Swedish, Danish
Viveka	-	Swedish
Gunther	GUWN-ter	German
Aemilianus	-	Ancient Roman
Iael	-	Biblical Greek