silver foil

silver foil

Thin sheets of aluminum that are typically used to cover food and keep it fresh. Primarily heard in UK. Wrap those leftovers in silver foil so you can have them for lunch tomorrow.
See also: foil, silver
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • put a (monkey) wrench in(to) the works
  • put a spanner in(to) the works
  • put/throw a spanner in the works
  • throw a monkey wrench in(to) (something)
  • throw a monkey wrench into
  • throw a spanner in the works
  • throw a spanner in(to) the works
  • put the mockers on
  • put the mockers on something
  • mockers
References in periodicals archive
THE COLORS Kisses originally came wrapped in silver foil and, for most of the year, they still are.
They also seized three mobile phones, silver foil and cling film.
Store 21, silver foil swing jacket, pounds 10, with white jeans, pounds 14.2.
Production designer Jeremy Reed and costume design John Dunn recreate the mood of the time, from Edie's trademark look to Warhol's studio space, lined with silver foil and cluttered with his soup cans and distinctive screen prints.
A brushed silver foil label carries the embossed brand logo and is inset in the glass.
Police who raided the house with search warrants at 7am yesterday found every room covered in insulating silver foil and cellophane on the windows.
The authentic beaded doll had large gold neck rings, so we added strips of silver foil paper around the top and bottom of our cups with tacky craft glue to simulate precious metal.
The 4-ounce Evergreen Tree Box is a triangle-shaped box that features tree stars moons and doves and is in shades of green, blue and silver foil. The box tied with a silver bow is filled with individually-wrapped blackberry creme, dark chocolate, mint and peanut butter truffles.
This was then set aside to cool and harden before a shaped piece of beaten silver foil was placed on the tinned surface and pressed.
HoloMark cards contain a permanent, embedded hologram available on gold or silver foil. The cards can be designed with hidden features such as nanotext and laser-viewable images, making them virtually impossible to duplicate.
Each bar wrapper sports a more modern Clif climber, a warmer natural-looking sky gradient, fresh fonts and light bronze foil fins in place of silver foil fins.
The stove Pocock has perfected is made up of silver foil over a plastic frame.
The counterfeit labels are made of paper; Similac labels are made of plastic with a silver foil backing.
importer, Pilsner Urquell's large Bordeaux-shaped bottle maintains the green glass, silver foil top, and long neck of its 12-oz.
Grinding silver powder with the superconducting ceramic material and mixing these ingredients with methanol or isopropyl (rubbing) alcohol yields a slurry that the researchers spread evenly onto paper-thin ribbons of silver foil. Before firing the composite into its final, hardened form, the scientists can bend it, even into coils.