Kissing someone that smokes is like kissing an ashtray.
吻一个烟民就像吻一个烟灰缸。
Two dogs strive for a bone, and a third runs away with it.
鹬蚌相争,渔翁得利。
On turning eagerly to the text, one learns that the lady was a typist who found the sound of office typewriters worried her more and more until eventually she had to go into a mental hospital.