'manna from heaven' definitions:

(Old Testament) food that God gave the Israelites during the Exodus [syn: miraculous food, manna, manna from heaven]

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]