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manna from heaven

Dictionary definition · manna from heaven

noun

  1. (Old Testament) food that God gave the Israelites during the Exodus
  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"

Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).