_________ surprise you have brought us!

.--- I’m sorry I stepped outside for a smoke. I was very tired.. --- There is no ________ for this while you are on duty.

 ---Is anything _____?---I can’t decide which dress I should wear at my friend’s wedding party.---I don’t think it ____. 

My mother is the type of woman who suspects that a late night call or a surprise invitation is a ________ of bad news.

I like __      a lot, and my mother usually cooks it in different ways.