manna from heaven

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manna from heaven - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  manna from heaven
      n 1: (Old Testament) food that God gave the Israelites during
           the Exodus [syn: miraculous food, manna, manna from heaven
           ]
      2: a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden
         opportunity to make money); "the demand for testing has
         created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes
         of specimen jars are processed like an assembly line" [syn:
         boom, bonanza, gold rush, gravy, godsend, manna   from heaven
         , windfall, bunce]