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}]