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]
Paddle your own canoe
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- paddle (Idiom)
- portage (word origin: 1698)
- Spirit of the Nation (1964 Album by Wolfe Tones)
- Joyce Kennedy (Rhythm & Blues Artist, '60s-'80s)
- own (Idiom)
- Robert Baden-Powell
- Norman C. Stiles
- Busker Alley
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- Horatio Alger, Jr.
