have (hand)writing like chicken scratch

have (hand)writing like chicken scratch

To have very poor, messy, and/or illegible handwriting, likened to the marks made in the dirt by a chicken. I can't understand these notes at all, you have handwriting like chicken scratch!
See also: chicken, have, like, scratch
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • handwriting
  • (one's) (hand)writing is like chicken scratch
  • have a hand like a foot
  • a hand like a foot
  • speak the same language
  • speak the same language, to
  • speak/talk the same/a different language
  • file off the serial number(s)
  • get (one's) rocks off on (something)
  • as though