se refermer

Les fleurs se refermaient le soir venu.
Flowers closing their eyes for the night.
Tu n'as pas besoin de continuer de courir comme si les portes se refermaient sous ton nez.
You don't need to keep running like the doors are slamming closed on you.
Jeune et relativement pauvre, les portes se refermaient sur moi.
Typically, such licenses cost many thousands of dollars, and being young and relatively poor, I was out of luck.
Oui Pendant un moment, les portes et les armoires s'ouvraient et se refermaient avec personne d'autre dans la maison.
Yes For a while doors and cabinets would open and slam shut when no one else was at home.
Une fois la procession passée, les rideaux se refermaient, la femme était à nouveau battue, la bouteille sortie de l'armoire, et l'on recommençait à pécher jusqu'à l'année suivante.
Then as soon as it had passed, the curtains were shut again and people went back to drinking and beating their wives and committing all manner of sins until the next year.
Pas une mouche ne volait. Une fois la procession passée, les rideaux se refermaient, la femme était à nouveau battue, la bouteille sortie de l'armoire, et l'on recommençait à pécher jusqu'à l'année suivante.
Then as soon as it had passed, the curtains were shut again and people went back to drinking and beating their wives and committing all manner of sins until the next year.
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