manna from heaven
       n 1: (Old Testament) food that God gave the Israelites during the
            Exodus [syn: miraculous food, manna]
       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 lik an assembly line"
          [syn: boom, bonanza, gold rush, gravy, godsend,
          windfall, bunce]