0 (in the Bible) a food that dropped from heaven and prevented Moses and his people from dying of hunger in the desert
The ordinary things of life cannot fall like manna from the skies.
I am glad that he is looking for something to come down to him like some kind of manna from heaven.
I feel sure that these things do not fall like manna.
To some extent, at least, they were taken over by activists, to whom their outworn shibboleths were as manna from heaven, just ripe for picking.
As we know, in court, definitions are manna for lawyers.
Again, before we ask ourselves whether this is manna from heaven, we have to set it against the financial disadvantages which the industry has been facing, and which are considerable.
According to your logic, it would have been a bad thing for the manna to have come down, because it would have caused unemployment among the nations.
The problem at the end of this agonising period is that a weakened industry will be faced by an economy that is to receive an injection of fiscal manna.
