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}]