WordNet
n. (Old Testament) food that God gave the Israelites during the Exodus [syn: miraculous food, manna]
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]
Wikipedia
Manna from Heaven is a book that contains a collection of short stories that were written by fantasy and science fiction author Roger Zelazny. It was published in 2003 by Zelazny's estate eight years after Zelazny's death.
Manna from Heaven is a 2002 film written by Gabrielle B. Burton and co-directed by her daughters Gabrielle C. Burton and Maria Burton. The film won awards at four film festivals. It was actor Jerry Orbach's final film before his death from prostate cancer in 2004 and Shelley Duvall's final film before her retirement from acting in 2002.
Usage examples of "manna from heaven".
It wasn't that the milkman enjoyed being disturbed, but the upstairs woman had complained so often about his radio, even threatening to involve the landlord, that the current disturbance was manna from heaven.
Like manna from heaven, food drops down from the clouds into the ocean.
I tell you, when they see those eyes all lined up and starin' at 'em and all that manna from Heaven coming down, it really makes 'em think.
It was manna from Heaven that I came into this world with a gift for modera.
Now even the food in the orphanage cafeteria seemed like it had been manna from Heaven, and he would have walked to China if he knew he could get a Burger King Whopper there.
Neither did they consecrate any goddess Mannia when they received manna from heaven.
Loading up on free wood was like gathering manna from heaven, and how could a person be completely cynical about that?