like manna from heaven 成语

for heaven's sake

for the sake of everyone, for goodness sake For heaven's sake, don't give her a teapot. She has four!

heaven forbid

we should not do it, we are not permitted "Grandma said, ""Heaven forbid! Don't play hockey on Sunday!"""

heaven help us

we are facing a crisis, we need a lot of help Heaven help us if we have an accident with Dad's Mercedes.

heavens

goodness, oh dear, gosh Heavens! You weren't supposed to arrive until Friday!

heavens to Betsy

oh no, heavens Heavens to Betsy! I can't find my purse!

in heaven's name

if we think of heaven, for heaven's sake Why in heaven's name did we come to Canada? It's cold here!

in seventh heaven

very happy I have been in seventh heaven since I started my new job.

move heaven and earth

try every way, do everything one can I will move heaven and earth to help you get a job with our company.

seventh heaven

in a situation of great happiness She has been in seventh heaven since she moved to the new department.

thank heavens

thank the gods, thank goodness "When we phoned Mom, she said, ""Thank heavens you're safe!"""

like blessing from heaven

Used to call an abrupt account or assistance, abnormally back it comes at the time back it is bare most. The byword is a advertence to the Biblical adventure of the aliment that God miraculously provided to the Israelites as they wandered in the wilderness. I had no abstraction we would be accepting a benefit this year, but it was like blessing from heaven—just in time to pay some of my anniversary bills. Having my ancestors abreast me during this tragedy has been like blessing from heaven for me.Learn more: heaven, like, manna

manna from heaven, like

Any abrupt or abrupt advantage or help. The chat manna is acclimated in the Bible, in Exodus (16:15), area it agency a amazing aliment that aback appears to advance the accouchement of Israel on their adventure from Egypt to the Holy Land. Exactly what it meant is no best known, but it may accept been a bribery of the Egyptian chat mennu, the sweet, adhering elimination of the tamarisk tree. In English the appellation came to beggarly an abrupt acceptable allowance from heaven or some added benevolent source. It was already actuality acclimated humorously in the aboriginal eighteenth aeon by Matthew Green (1696–1737), who wrote (in The Spleen), “Or to some coffeehouse I stray, for news, the blessing of a day.”Learn more: like, manna

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ten-four (CB radio) ten to one tender age of tenterhooks test drive test the water TGIF thank goodness thank heavens thank your lucky stars thanks a bunch thanks a million that a boy/that a girl that is that that'll be the day that'll be the frosty Friday that's a corker like hell and high lightning Like hell! like herding cats like herding frogs like hot cakes, go like I (really) give a shit like I care Like I really give a shit! like I said like I was saying like it is going out of fashion or style like it or leave it like it or lump it Like it or lump it! like it or not like it was going out of style like it's going out of fashion like it's such a big deal Like it's such a big deal! like lambs to the slaughter like light at the end of a tunnel like lightning like looking for a needle in a haystack like looking for/trying to find a needle in a haystack like mad like manna from heaven like money in the bank like mother, like daughter like mushrooms like nailing Jell-O to a cross like nailing Jell-O to a tree like nailing Jell-O to the wall like nailing jelly to a tree like nailing jelly to the wall like night and day like nobody's business like nothing on earth like one of the family like opening (up) a can of worms like peas in a pod like piffy on a rock bun like piffy on a rock cake like pigs in clover like pigs to the slaughter like pulling teeth like rats abandoning a sinking ship like rats deserting a sinking ship like rats from a sinking ship like rats leaving a sinking ship like rolling off (of) a log like sheep