on one's own account

Also, on one's own hook or initiative. For oneself; also, by one's own efforts, as in I've gone into business on my own account, or He called the police on his own hook, or She went job-hunting on her own initiative. The first term, first recorded in 1801, transfers the financial sense of account to one's own interest or risk. The hook variant, a colloquialism, was first recorded in 1812 and the precise analogy is unclear. The second variant, using initiative in the sense of “enterprise,” was first recorded in 1858.

Words nearby on one's own account

on one's home ground, on one's honor, on one's last legs, on one's mind, on one's own, on one's own account, on one's own time, on one's part, on one's say-so, on one's shoulders, on one's soapbox

单词	on one's own account
释义	on one's own account Also, on one's own hook or initiative. For oneself; also, by one's own efforts, as in I've gone into business on my own account, or He called the police on his own hook, or She went job-hunting on her own initiative. The first term, first recorded in 1801, transfers the financial sense of account to one's own interest or risk. The hook variant, a colloquialism, was first recorded in 1812 and the precise analogy is unclear. The second variant, using initiative in the sense of “enterprise,” was first recorded in 1858. Words nearby on one's own account on one's home ground, on one's honor, on one's last legs, on one's mind, on one's own, on one's own account, on one's own time, on one's part, on one's say-so, on one's shoulders, on one's soapbox The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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