NOUN
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a quantity of no importance
we racked up a pathetic goose egg
reduced to nil all the work we had done
I didn't hear zilch about it
it was all for naught
it looked like nothing I had ever seen before
How To Use goose egg In A Sentence
- Barney whirls on him and glares - eyes big as goose eggs, lips pursed and bloodless.
- I had a fried goose egg for lunch.
- Night before last they ate me up pretty good; I've got a good-sized goose egg in the middle of my right quadriceps, and other welts on my left calf and elbow that take me back to my childhood and the extreme reaction I would have to mozzie bites. Bit, awake
- You can purchase free-range hen, duck and goose eggs in addition to jams and preserves.
- we racked up a pathetic goose egg
- Don't forget our great range of cakes, tarts and bread, free-range hen, duck and goose eggs and home made pasta sauces, pickles and preserves.
- In London, we saw the rise of the first mega-bucks English breakfasts and I fed my growing waistline with £20 plates of Cumberland sausage, organic goose eggs, homemade baked beans, hash browns, portobello mushrooms and endless granary toast with lightly salted butter, served with cafetieres of freshly brewed coffee. How Britain fell in love with breakfast
- Don't forget our great range of cakes, tarts and bread, free-range hen, duck and goose eggs and home made pasta sauces, pickles and preserves.
- Duck, in this idiom is short for duck's egg, a British variant of goose egg, meaning ` zero '(or nil, as the British prefer to express it in scoring). VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 3
- He got a goose egg on his maths test.
