Something unexpected and very helpful that comes at exactly the right time when you need it.
Combines 'God' with 'send,' originally implying that something was sent by God as a blessing. The phrase emerged in Middle English as a way to express gratitude for fortunate circumstances, treating luck as divine intervention.
Before modern medicine, disease outbreaks were devastating, so when antibiotics were discovered in 1928, people literally called them 'godsends'—the word captures how miraculous scientific breakthroughs felt to ordinary people!
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