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manna from heaven
Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  manna from heaven - (Old Testament) food that God gave the Israelites during the Exodusmiraculous food, mannafood, nutrient - any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissueOld Testament - the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible | | 2. | 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"bunce, godsend, gold rush, bonanza, windfall, boom, gravyhappening, natural event, occurrence, occurrent - an event that happens |
manna from heaven
manna from heavenAn unexpected benefit or assistance, especially when it comes at the time when it is needed most. The phrase is a reference to the Biblical story of the food that God miraculously provided to the Israelites as they wandered in the wilderness. I had no idea we would be getting a bonus this year, but it was like manna from heaven—just in time to pay some of my holiday bills.See also: heaven, mannamanna from heavenFig. unexpected help or comfort. (A biblical reference.) The arrival of the rescue team was like manna from heaven to the injured climber. The offer of a new job just as she had been fired was manna from heaven to Joan.See also: heaven, mannamanna from heavenAn unexpected aid, advantage, or assistance, as in After all the criticism in the media, that favorable evaluation was like manna from heaven . This expression alludes to the food ( manna) that miraculously appears to feed the Israelites on their journey from Egypt to the Promised Land (Exodus 16:15). See also: heaven, mannamanna from ˈheaven something unexpected, for example a gift of money, which comes to help you when you are in difficulties: That cheque for £1 000 from my aunt came like manna from heaven as I had three or four big bills to pay.This phrase comes from the Bible. Manna was the food the Israelites found in the desert.See also: heaven, mannamanna from heaven, likeAny sudden or unexpected advantage or help. The word manna is used in the Bible, in Exodus (16:15), where it means a miraculous food that suddenly appears to succor the children of Israel on their journey from Egypt to the Holy Land. Exactly what it meant is no longer known, but it may have been a corruption of the Egyptian word mennu, the sweet, waxy exudation of the tamarisk tree. In English the term came to mean an unexpected welcome gift from heaven or some other benevolent source. It was already being used humorously in the early eighteenth century by Matthew Green (1696–1737), who wrote (in The Spleen), “Or to some coffeehouse I stray, for news, the manna of a day.”See also: like, mannamanna from heaven
Synonyms for manna from heavennoun (Old Testament) food that God gave the Israelites during the ExodusSynonymsRelated Words- food
- nutrient
- Old Testament
noun a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money)Synonyms- bunce
- godsend
- gold rush
- bonanza
- windfall
- boom
- gravy
Related Words- happening
- natural event
- occurrence
- occurrent
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