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Unrelated to the post, but I find it beautiful that a colloquial phrase 'they say in India', has a sort of global recognition to me growing up in the United States.

We used to call poor handwriting 'chicken scratch' for fun all the time when I was a kid. I would know because my handwriting has always been horrible. I was always jealous of people who had pretty handwriting :)

I'm sure this is a term people in many other countries would recognize, I wonder what other coloquialisms have this sort of widespread recognition?



RE chicken scratch, we have a very similar saying in Poland - "pisane jak kura pazurem", meaning "written like a chicken with its claw would".


Similar thing in Serbian - "švrakopis" - magpie's writing (švraka - magpie, -o- connection, pis[ati] - to write).

> crabbed handwritting, cacography, chicken scratch

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C5%A1vrakopis




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