Of course, we prefer to answer questions from allmaxx members. Wiebke wants to know what “under further running” means, so we started the proverb machine right away.
The ones that went under further are usually pretty uninteresting. They come at the very end and are hardly worth mentioning anymore. But who knows that this expression comes from horse racing? The results will be announced after each race. At the time it was created, the first, second, third places, etc. were still called by name. The so-called Moravians, the “bad horses,” came at the end. Nobody was interested in them anymore, so they just said: “We also ran…”.
