Is there any phrase for describing when someone writes extremally illegibly?
In Poland it's called "physician's script", or there's an idiom "pisać jak kura pazurem", which literally means "to scribble like a chicken with claw".
It's very popular in Poland. Well, at least I've heard it on every occasion.
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The English equivalent is similar: chicken scratch.
This would be a noun phrase to describe the writing, not the person, though, so an example would be:
"I can't read a word of John's chicken scratch. Can you translate it for me?"
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