goose egg
n.
零,



goose egg
[ noun ]
a quantity of no importance
<noun.quantity>
it looked like nothing I had ever seen beforereduced 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




Goose egg \Goose egg\
1. In games, a zero; a score or record of naught; -- so named
in allusion to the egglike outline of the zero sign 0.
Called also {duck egg}. [Slang]
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

2. A bump on the skin caused by a blow, especially one on the
head.
[PJC]