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}]