paddle one's own canoe

Update: 2025-10-25

Description

#esl #english #idioms #informal #verb

paddle one's own canoe {v. phr.}, {informal}

To work without help; earn your own living; support yourself.

After his father died, John had to paddle his own canoe.

Syn.: HOE ONE'S OWN ROW.

Compare: MAKE ONE'S WAY.

Categories:

{informal}

{v. phr.}

Comments

In Channel

J. De La Bruyere

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paddle one's own canoe

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just for the fun of it

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minutes of the meeting

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George Carlin

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give ground

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make one's way

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put it on thick

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Public

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pile-up

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play the field

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put up to

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pull off

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dream of

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go like clockwork

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pebble

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look up to

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if the hill will not come to Muhammad, Muhammad will go to the hill

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pluck up

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go stag

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paddle one's own canoe

A. Makkai, M.T. Boatner, J.E. Gates

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paddle one's own canoe

A. Makkai, M.T. Boatner, J.E. Gates

paddle one's own canoe