A fork of Rural Dictionary
1. To keep doing something long after one should have stopped. 2. To beat a dead horse. 3. Whatever you are doing has died, finished, been exploited to its fullest and you have chosen to continue... perhaps your a jerk.
a. Bill Watterson (creator of Calvin and Hobbes): "I think some of the reason "Calvin and Hobbes" still finds an audience today is because I chose not to run the wheels off it. I've never regretted stopping when I did." b. I think ol' Sly may be running the wheels off of the Rocky/Rambo franchises'.
To not only skip out on your partner in crime so dat he gets da blame for your "combined" transgressions, but you also abscond with whatever ill-gotten booty dat said hapless cohort helped you to "acquire"!
In da "Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn" tale, da King and da Duke had both secretly planned to bilk da other out of da sack of gold --- i.e., each one of said selfish 'n' shameless shysters possessed da classic "no honor among thieves" mindset, and thus was going to pull da disgraceful "run off and leave him NOT holding the bag" on his unwitting accomplice!