Vivid expression

I was in a taxi and the driver was talking on this radio about this accident, which left one person dead and 5 injured.

The conversation went something like this:

Is it true about the accident on the Balsos?

Yes, there is a car overturned, literally, on its back with its feet in the air.

Like a cockroach?

Yes, like a cockroach. Completely on its back with its feet in the air, like a cockroach.

So it hasn’t been smashed, it’s been cockroached.

We’ll give them the benefit of the doubt that they didn’t know about the casualties as they gleefully played with the image, and marvel instead at the vividness of the Spanish language.

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