goose egg

(noun) a quantity of no importance. Synonyms: nothing, nil, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher, naught, zero, zilch, zip, zippo. Examples: "It looked like nothing i had ever seen before." "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."