to be (like) manna from heaven
1manna from heaven — noun 1. 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 …
2manna from heaven — something that you need or want very much and that you get unexpectedly A letter from home was like manna from heaven …
3manna from heaven — something that you need which you get when you are not expecting to get it. I had been unemployed for two years, so when somebody phoned me up and offered me a permanent job it was like manna from heaven …
4Manna from Heaven —   Dust jacket from the first edition …
5Manna (album) — Manna Studio album by Bread Released 1971 …
6Manna — For other uses, see Manna (disambiguation). The Gathering of the Manna by James Tissot Manna (Hebrew: מָן) or Manna wa Salwa (Arabic: مَنّ, Kurdish …
7MANNA — (Heb. מָן), referred to as bread from heaven (Ex. 16:4; cf. Ps. 105:40). Manna is described in Exodus as coming down in the wilderness of Sinai within the area of the Israelites encampment every morning except on Sabbaths in the form of a fine,… …
8Manna — • The food miraculously sent to the Israelites during their forty years sojourn in the desert (Ex., xvi; Num., xi, 6 9) Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Manna Manna …
9Heaven — may refer to the physical heavens, the sky or the seemingly endless expanse of the universe beyond.The term is used to refer to a plane of existence (sometimes held to exist in our own universe) in religions and spiritual philosophies, typically… …
10Manna — Heb. man hu, What is that? the name given by the Israelites to the food miraculously supplied to them during their wanderings in the wilderness (Ex. 16:15 35). The name is commonly taken as derived from man, an expression of surprise, What is… …
