| 单词 | manna from heaven |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmanna from heaven b. Something beneficial or pleasing (originally, food), appearing or being provided unexpectedly or opportunely. Now frequently in manna from heaven. ΚΠ 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice v. i. 294 Faire Ladies, you drop Manna in the way of starued people. View more context for this quotation 1607 T. Middleton Phoenix sig. C Tis..verie manna to me to be in law. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 113 His Tongue Dropt Manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason. View more context for this quotation 1684 T. Otway Atheist i. 5 Do you despise your own Manna indeed, and long after Quails? 1777 D. Garrick Let. 14 Sept. in D. Garrick & G. Spencer Lett. (1960) 109 The whole town are waiting..for the manna of good news from the Howes. 1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) ix. 103 You see in me..the benefactor of your race;..the preserver of your brother, who is fed with manna daily from my table. 1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker xxiv. 389 The food was not very good,..but it was manna to the castaways. 1942 R.A.F. Jrnl. 13 June 13 Here were action troops: the implication of a new striking force..were manna to all the..wishful-thinkers of the period. 1987 Sunday Express Mag. 31 May 38/1 Any entertainment is a thrill but this, this is manna from heaven. 1998 Grocer 12 Sept. 18/2 His regular, technicoloured prose has been manna from heaven for hungry headline writers. < as lemmas |
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