se coucher

Les lions se coucheraient avec des agneaux.
Lions would lie down with lambs.
Et pourtant, on entend, ci et là, des arguments étranges en faveur de sa suppression. On prétend par exemple que, dans les pays du Nord, les enfants se coucheraient trop tard, ne réussissant pas à dormir avant la tombée de la nuit.
Nevertheless, one does sometimes hear strange arguments against summer time, such as that children in the North cannot sleep and that they go to bed late, that is to say only once it gets dark.
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