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Goose egg

noun

A quantity of no importance. Synonyms: aught, cipher, cypher, nada, naught, nil, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zip, zippo. "Reduced to nil all the work we had done" , "We racked up a pathetic goose egg" , "It was all for naught" , "I didn't hear zilch about it"

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"Goose egg" Quotes from Famous Books

... the party found a slender vein of pure gold, enough to give hope that the vein broadened out farther on. Tad, in a cavelike niche, saw a gray streak of ore that reached for a long distance. A piece of this about the size of a goose egg lay at his feet. It was heavy, and he put it in his pocket ...

— The Pony Rider Boys in Alaska - The Gold Diggers of Taku Pass • Frank Gee Patchin

Words linked to "Goose egg" : relative quantity, nihil, bugger all, sweet Fanny Adams, Fanny Adams, fuck all