(your) own man

See: your own person

• make a beeline for
• make a beeline for someone
• make a beeline for something
• make a big thing of
• make a big thing of something
• make a big thing out of
• make a big thing out of something
• make a case for
• make a case for doing something
• make a case for something
• make a clean breast of it
• make a [day/night/weekend etc.] of it
• make a day of it
• make a dent in
• make a dent in something
• make a difference
• make a face
• make a face at
• make a face at someone
• make a face at something
• make a fast buck
• make a federal case of
• make a federal case of something
• make a federal case out of
• make a federal case out of something