Translation for "teníamos dice" to english

Teníamos dice

• we had say
• we say

Translation examples

we say

Me llama la atención que los defensores de los derechos -- al menos una buena parte de ellos -- no se comprometen con algo tan concreto y tan real como lo es el hombre que te dice de frente: "Tengo hambre" o la mujer que te dice al rostro que no tiene cómo alimentar a sus hijos y a los que les soltamos como solución la receta salvadora: "trabajen", sin saber que el trabajo fue el primero que abandonó la pobreza.
I have noticed that those who defend rights -- at least very many of them -- do not commit themselves to something as concrete and real as the man who stands before them and declares: "I am hungry", or the woman who tells them to their faces that she has no food to give her children, or those to whom we say "Find work", as if this were some sort of formula for success, not knowing that work was the first thing that poverty abandoned.

—No se dice bocata, cariño. Se dice bocadillo —dijo Lottie.
Lottie said, “We don’t say ‘grub,’ darling. We say ‘food.’ ”