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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

... carefully throwing away the sand with their hands from the centre, until they had worked down to a deep narrow hole, round the sides of which, and embedded in the sand, were four fine large eggs of a delicate pink colour, and fully the size of a goose egg. I had often seen these hills before, but did not know that they were nests, and that they contained so valuable a prize to a traveller in the desert. The eggs were presented to me by the natives, and ...

— Journals Of Expeditions Of Discovery Into Central • Edward John Eyre

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