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]